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It was a business meeting, and was transacted in English, but that made no difference to Marija; she said what was in her, and all the pounding of the chairman's gavel and all the uproar and confusion in the room could not prevail.

So high has been the death-rate among these isolated companies that at a recent conven- tion of telephone agents, the chairman's gavel was made of thirty-five pieces of wood, taken from thirty-five switchboards of thirty-five extinct companies.

Former AOP chair, Lyndon Taylor, gifted a handmade gavel to the AOP Council, which was used for the first time at the meeting by current chair, Mike George.

Apparently, when he doesn't like something one of the reps says, he pounds his gavel to shut them up.

The last time a speaker regained the gavel was more than a half-century ago.

Second-place winner Sara George represented Zeal Gavel Club and spoke on the topic, 'Dare to be different', while third-place winner Lisa Eliz Mathew, representing American School of Doha, spoke on the topic 'Genius by mistake', wherein she gave hilarious accounts of her mistakes.

The auction was very well attended and saw entries from all across south Wales selling at the fall of the gavel; including properties from Cardiff, Merthyr Tydfil, Swansea and Pembroke Dock.

IMAGINE spending more than PS1m at auction on a Bansky - only for it to be shredded minutes after the gavel goes down.