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ANNUAL REPORT 2014 TO HONOUR . TO PRESERVE . TO EDUCATE . TO INSPIRE David Gallaher The front and back covers of the Annual Report show two Honoured Members who were killed in action in the First World War, David Gallaher and Anthony Wilding. They were just two of many New Zealand sports people to die in the war, the centenary of which is now being marked. In addition to Gallaher, twelve Railway Station, Anzac Avenue other All Blacks died; one national rugby league player was killed PO Box 643, Dunedin 9054 Telephone 03 477 7775 at Gallipoli; an Olympian from 1908 and two who played cricket [email protected] for New Zealand were also killed; another fifteen first-class www.nzhalloffame.co.nz cricketers also lost their lives. Contents Chairman’s report 2 Chief Executive’s report 3 Financial Statements Statement of Financial Performance 5 Statement of Movement in Equity 6 Statement of Financial Position 6 Notes to the Financial Statements 7 Auditor’s Report 9 Honoured Members of the New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame 10 Directory 12 to honour • to preserve • to educate • to inspire NEW ZEALAND SPORTS HALL OF FAME Annual Report 2014 1 Chairman’s Report to respond to those demands are finite and all too modest. The better position is to allow the collections of all our major sports to be housed in I wrote this report while the Canadian Prime Minister one entity and for that entity to enjoy the research was shown on television responding to events in and curatorial skills and experience only available Parliament Buildings in Ottawa and the shooting of within Te Papa. a soldier at the adjacent War Memorial. Stephen Harper was flanked by his country’s flag, known the I am therefore pleased to report that we are finally world over as the Maple Leaf. Canada changed its getting some traction in our advocacy for greater flag 50 years ago and what a success that has been recognition by Te Papa of the role sport has played in adding to Canada’s national identity. in the formation of our identity as New Zealanders. Together with Sport New Zealand, whose board In New Zealand, Prime Minister John Key has and management appear to share our vision for the announced his intention to hold a series of establishment of a national sports museum, we have referendums about our flag. If the current symbols recently been in discussions with representatives of of the Union Jack and the Southern Cross and the Te Papa about how to advance this vision. colours of red, blue and white were to disappear, what would we replace them with? Apart from It is your Governors’ hope that when a national design considerations, this exercise becomes a sports museum is established that the Sports Hall fundamental exploration of identity. of Fame will co-exist in a complementary manner alongside. It is not possible to completely merge It is interesting to observe that our current flag was any new museum initiative with the Hall but there only formally adopted in 1902 though it had been is no reason why the collections of each may not used in various forms since the 1840s. In sport we be displayed together. Indeed, we see that the first saw the use of a black strip and a silver fern opportunity to display both collections together plus 126 years ago in 1888 with the tour of the New those, for example, of the New Zealand Olympic Zealand Natives rugby team to Australia and Britain, Committee and of the Rugby Museum and Cricket as well as games in New Zealand before and after. Museum and collections from other sports as When I think of flags, national identity and sport as compelling. a combination I particularly go back to 1995 and the defining moment in the rugby World Cup final Additionally, the Hall must remain the property and in South Africa when President Nelson Mandela responsibility of its Honoured Members and such saw his World Cup team and the final as vehicles activities as the annual induction ceremony are the to bring his country together under a new flag and exclusive preserve of the Hall. achieve a greater shared purpose in what had been a segregated nation. The impact was tectonic on Whatever is the final shape of the process of South Africa. establishment that now appears to be under way we at the Hall are committed to providing future visitors Sport has an influential role to play in the and in particular the young with an experience conversations our prime minister is planning to that allows them to better understand what it is promote in New Zealand about our flag and the Hall that contributes to the elements of being a New will participate in those activities. Zealander as well as displaying and chronicling the feats of our sporting heroes. In previous annual reports I have touched on the matter of our national identity and the role sport has Two other initiatives have occurred that are worthy played in its formation. I have also had occasion of note. One was the launch at Te Papa of the final to observe the lack of recognition by Te Papa section of , Tongarewa of the contribution sport has played both Te Ara, the Encyclopaedia of New Zealand a publication many years in the making. The final in the display and collection of material. section covered Creative and Intellectual Life while in an earlier section Sport and Recreation had My commentary was in relation to our advocacy been added. The irony of a major publication with on behalf of Honoured Members of the Hall for significant government backing being launched at establishment of a national sports museum ideally Te Papa a venue noted for its aridity of collection under the aegis of Te Papa. It is a fact that the and display on matters relating to sport was not lost demands on the Hall to become a de facto national on the Hall. sports museum are growing but our resources 2 Annual Report 2014 NEW ZEALAND SPORTS HALL OF FAME The second was the launch of the National Sports Chief Executive’s Report Museum Online site in the United Kingdom (http:// www.nationalsportsmuseumonline.org.uk). Its aim It is appropriate that the front and back of the is to draw together information about all sporting Annual Report should feature images of two of collections in the United Kingdom, wherever they are our Honoured Members who were killed on active held. While this is a private initiative, it does receive service in the First World War: David Gallaher and some Arts Council England funding. It is an excellent Anthony Wilding. The centenary of the start of the concept and we will watch its progress, particularly war, and other 100-year milestones that will pass in in relation to garnering the interest of young people the next four years, serves to remind New Zealanders in sport. We will also watch the potential for visitor of the great sacrifices made by all during the war, growth to those museums involved as since the not just the citizen soldiers who served but those 2012 Olympic Games in London there has been a who stayed home as well, enduring from a distance. renaissance in international visitor interest around Singling out men such as Gallaher and Wilding from sports heritage in the United Kingdom. I wonder the thousands of New Zealanders who died should with a Lions tour of New Zealand in 2017, what not be seen as putting them on a pedestal beyond those visitors will make of a visit to Te Papa and its others: it was their achievement in sport that did treatment of New Zealand’s sporting heritage. that, not their service in war. Wilding served with a detachment of the (British) Royal Marines and was The Hall is in the process of identifying sporting killed in May 1915. He was New Zealand’s most collections wherever they might be such as successful tennis player and still ranks sixth among museums, archives, libraries, community venues, multiple winners at Wimbledon: equal to Australian libraries, universities, schools and private collectors Rod Laver, ahead of players such as Boris Becker, known to sports organisations. The Hall, as noted John McEnroe and Jimmy Connors. in Ron Palenski’s report, has modified its operating description to introduce the term “museum” Gallaher was a sergeant in the Auckland Battalion to better allow the process of the collection of of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force and was information and material. killed in the first phase of fighting at Paschendaele in October 1917. It hardly needs to be repeated that On behalf of the Honoured Members, I thank he was captain of the first All Black team to tour the Ron and his team for continuing to operate the northern hemisphere, in 1905-06, and was later an Hall successfully with a truly modest budget and Auckland and New Zealand selector. I acknowledge the contribution from my fellow Governors and in particular those from the south The Hall was able to obtain funding from a special who monitor executive functions of the Hall on a government fund set up for war commemorations regular basis. for banners featuring Wilding and Gallaher. In addition to those Honoured and other Members An interesting insight into the enduring fame of who died during the past year to whom Ron refers Gallaher is that an Irish film crew visited the Hall in his report, I acknowledge Sir Tay Wilson, a past during the year while making a documentary about long-serving Governor of the Hall who died in Lower him.