The International - Travelling Gavels

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Rick & Barbara Howes, Gerry and Patricia Webber when they paid us a visit here
at Wyong, NSW, Australia from Canada
This photo was taken in early April 2006
Around the 6 th April 2006, approximately eight am, I received a phone call from a
Tourist Travel Agent, he said that he had just picked up Jerry and Patricia Webber from
Mascot Airport, and that they wanted to call in to see Barbara and I in Wyong, as they
journeyed up the Coast of New South Wales, on their way to Brisbane, in Queensland.
We chatted over a cup of coffee for around an hour. Ever since Gerry Webber had
received this Travelling Gavel, I had kept in constant contact with him, either by phone
or by email. I was very surprised to see him and his wife in person.
Gerry gave me a small Gavel, Alberta style, somewhat smaller than what we use in Australia
and an Anniversary Medallion while he was visiting us,
He and Rt. W. Bro. Vic Ramsbottom, Alberta Grand Lodge Historian, took it upon
themselves, to see that the Travelling Gavel kept on the move, for this, I was most grateful.
I presented this Special ―Trophy Gavel‖ to Gerry Webber for what he had done for me
in regards of the Alberta Travelling Gavel
Which is made up out of over 19,000 pieces of
Australian Red Cedar and Radiata Pine?
It included every Australian Coin on the wooden map
of Australia which is also made out of Australian Red
Cedar
Then one day in June 2007, Rt. W... Bro. Vic
Ramsbottom emailed me from Canada, to say that
Gerry had suddenly passed away. This man and
Mason will surely be missed not only by his family,
but in our Fraternity of Freemasonry also.