ENTRY, INTO CANADA QUESTIONED

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 70, 15 December 1928, Page 4

ENTRY, INTO CANADA QUESTIONED

THE ORR CASE AGAIN. Australian Press Association. Vancouver, December 13. The Rev. S. R. Orr was held by the immigration authorities on an information from Ottawa that be had entered Canada illegally. Orr was formerly pastor of a large Presbyterian Church in Vancouver, and was suspended after an inquiry into his conduct with a lady member of the congregatioa. Later, be was made :-respondent >• the divorce action of Gordon Fleck. The Court held that adultery had been proved, and granted an absolute divorce, vith costs against Orr. )rr later assaulted the lawyer for Fleck, and was fined 100 dollars, in default two months’ imprisonmnent. His wife was the subject of a mysterious assault in her home after the divorce case. There are no details as to who laid th; charge av Ottawa. Orr entered Canada from Wellington, New Zealand, in 1926.

After a lengthy hearing by the immigration board. Orr was released. It waS charged that he had been an inmate of a mental Institution 1. New Zealand, and, though a British subject, could be deported. Orr produced documents. one signed by the late Right Hon. W. F. Massey, that he was of good character and reputation in New Zealand. Orr said : “It’s the first square deal I've ever got from the Courts or authorities in Canada.”