CLERGYMAN CITED AS CO-RESPONDENT

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 532, 8 December 1928, Page 1

CLERGYMAN CITED AS CO-RESPONDENT

DIVORCE GRANTED -ORR FINED £2O FOR AN ASSAULT (United Service) Rec. 10.14 a.m. VANCOUVER, To-day. i The Rev. Samuel Robertson Orr, ; formerly an Auckland clergyman, was | mulcted in exemplary costs by the ' Judge who granted a divorce to Gordon Fleck, a wealthy Vancouver citizen. He named Orr as co-respondent. The clergyman was also fined £2O and costs for an assault upon Fleck’s lawyer, who gave Orr a grilling examination A commission of the Presbyterian Church has decided adversely in the case of the Rev. William Robertson Orr, who came to Canada three years ago from Wellington, New Zealand, said a Vancouver message of July 21. The commission finds that he has been guilty of misconduct so unbecoming in a minister as to necessitate dissolution of his pastoral tie with a fashionable central church at Vancouver, and that he remains in suspension from holy duties until completion of the divorce action now pending. Orr is named as co-respondent by Gordon Fleck, a middle-aged capitalist, who sues his wife for divorce because he leges that she took a trip with Orr in th*latter’s room aboard a steamer from Vancouver to Victoria. The evidence includes an overheard conversation between Orr and Mrs. Fleck over the telephone, in which she sweetly described her present bedroom condition as “as nude as my nose.” The lady later explained that she was referring to a new-fangled face powder called “Nude,” and that her words over the phone were: “I am nuding my nose." It is alleged by the other side that this so-called “Nude” powder was not marketed in. Vancouver until several weeks 'aTter the alleged phone conversation. # ln any event, the case has churji circles by the ears throughout every ciiy in Canada, and the committee’s action to-day was the result of dfscussion bv the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of Canada.