SUSPENDED.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 171, 21 July 1928, Page 9

SUSPENDED.

FORMER N.Z. MINISTER Relations With Woman Lead To Church Action. DIVORCE SUIT PENDING. (United Service.) (Received 1 p.m.) VANCOUVER, July 20. A commission of the Presbyterian Church has decided adversely on the case of the Rev. William RobertsonOrr, who came to Canada three years ago from Wellington, New Zealand. The commission finds he was guilty of conduct so unbecoming in a minister as to necessitate the dissolution of his pastoral tie with the fashionable Central Church of Vancouver, and that he remains in suspension from his holy duties until the completion of the divorce action now pending. Orr is named as co-respondent by Gordon Fleck, a middle-aged capitalist, who sues his wife, particularly because he alleges she took a trip with Orr in the latter's room aboard the steamer Vancouver to Victoria. The evidence includes conversation between Orr and Mrs. Fleck over the telephone, which it is alleged was overheard, in which she sweetly described her present bedroom condition as " nude as my nose." The lady explained later that she was referring to a new-fangled face powder called nude, and that her words over the telephone were, " I am nuding my nose.'' It is alleged by tlie other side that this so-called "nude" powder was not marketed in Vancouver until several weeks after the alleged conversation. In any event, the case has church circles by the ears throughout every city in Canada, and the committee's action to-day was the result of a discussion by the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of Canada.