2017 ANNUAL REPORT TO HONOUR . TO PRESERVE . TO EDUCATE . TO INSPIRE Front cover: World leaders in sport sixty years ago Marise Chamberlain was a track athlete who broke or equalled world 400 metres and 440 yards records over three successive years 1957- 59; she also won the bronze medal in the 800 metres at the Olympic Games in Tokyo in 1964, the only track medal won by a New Zealand woman at an Olympics. She also set unofficial world records over a mile and 1500 metres and was second in the 880 yards at the Empire and Commonwealth Games in Perth in 1962. Pip Gould set world records for the 200 metres and 220 yards backstroke at the Newmarket Pool in Auckland in 1957 and the following year set world 100 metres and 110 yards records. She remains the only New Zealand swimmer to set world record times in long-course pools. She won the bronze medal in the 110 yards backstroke at the Empire Games in Cardiff in 1958. Back cover: Six times a champion On September 6 1968, fifty years ago this year, Ivan Mauger won the first of his record six world speedway titles, three of them in successive years. He rode in fourteen consecutive world finals. He also won other Railway Station, Anzac Avenue world titles, including three long-track championships. The picture PO Box 643, Dunedin 9054 shows him after winning his sixth title, in Katowice in Poland, and Telephone 03 477 7775 [email protected] holding up a No 6 dossard to indicate his feat. nzsportshalloffame www.nzhalloffame.co.nz Contents Chairman’s Report 2 Chief Executive’s Report 3 Performance Report Entity Information 5 Statement of Service Performance 6 Financial Information Statement of Financial Performance 7 Statement of Financial Position 8 Statement of Cash Flows 9 Statement of Accounting Policies 10-11 Notes to the Performance Report 12 Independent Auditor's Report 13-14 Honoured Members of the New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame 15-16 Directory 17 to honour • to preserve • to educate • to inspire NEW ZEALAND SPORTS HALL OF FAME Annual Report 2017 1 Chairman’s Report One of the elements in the formative years of the Hall we did not predict would occur with quite so much impact as it has is the number of national On a relatively quiet mid-week day I recently sports organisations who would identify the Hall as went around the Hall’s premises to inspect and the preferred custodian of their records and thus the acknowledge new additions and modifications to custodian of the history of a particular sport (usually existing exhibits. It was school holidays time and from inception or close to it) in New Zealand. there were several groups of students with parents or older friends or members of family that were While we were always committed to chronicling the absorbing the material in the exhibits. activities in those sports played by our Honoured Members it was the actual achievement of our Revenue from these sorts of visitors has never been Honoured Members that was our primary focus. our primary source of income although the type of Nevertheless we have recognised that none of visitor I saw has always been a key target for the the government funded museums in New Zealand Hall. consider they have a charter to be the custodian of sports heritage so the Hall has become this entity. Since 1999 the Hall has been located in Dunedin in Visitors will note upon arriving at the front steps to the city’s Railway Station, a building that has its own the Railway Station building that our signage now heritage status. When we were designing the Hall makes reference to our expanded role as a sports to be located in the Railway Station building and museum in addition to being the Sports Hall of to meet the standards of the Historic Places Trust Fame. and the owner, the Dunedin City Council, we had a number of goals: Over time the categorisation and storage of those 1) Provide memorabilia that is specific to an records will create both personnel and storage Honoured Member and to provide related and issues for the Hall. We anticipate that with sufficient generic items relevant to the sport played by the ventilation of our expanded role that the government Honoured Member. through our principal funder will recognise and 2) Ensure that the memorabilia, artefacts and reward us in due course for our constructive exhibits are attractive and interesting to visitors stewardship of an important ingredient of our from both within New Zealand and from overseas. heritage as a nation with an overweight sporting 3) To ensure that whatever is displayed is worthy streak. and truly representative of the Honoured Members and their achievements. As to adding to our exhibits I am particularly looking forward to Ron Palenski travelling to Texas In addition the challenge was to reflect the mission in the first quarter of 2018 to uplift the personal of the Hall: to honour, to preserve, to educate and collection of Sir Peter Snell for delivery to the Hall. to inspire. We are very grateful to Sir Peter as we are with all Honoured Members for their decision to entrust the In reviewing the years since I note that our principal Hall with those special and cherished items. We will funding sources back then were the Hillary honour, preserve, educate and inspire with what is Commission, the New Zealand Sports Foundation entrusted to us. and the New Zealand Olympic Committee. Today we have a single primary source and that is Sport Two previous Ministers of Sport, the Hon Dr New Zealand. With the current entity, our focus Jonathan Coleman and the Hon Trevor Mallard, as always is on achieving a longer term funding have visited the Hall and demonstrated a wide commitment than we have typically enjoyed. We knowledge and interest in many of the Honoured acknowledge that in pursuing our funding goal Members exhibits on display and have been that Sport New Zealand itself has limitations on enthusiastic in their support. Peter Miskimmin ,the the duration of its own funding and with a change Chief Executive of Sport New Zealand, is active in his of government at the time of writing of this report encouragement of our role and we are additionally there will be a further element of uncertainty about grateful to his chair Sir Paul Collins, the Board of what lies ahead. Sport New Zealand and its management for their 2 Annual Report 2017 NEW ZEALAND SPORTS HALL OF FAME wider support. These are people who mill around the merchandise area, quite often buying something or those who just Stuart McLauchlan and the Management want a chat and share their knowledge of champions Committee continue to provide a regular and of the past. Some stand at the entrance and point valuable monitoring contribution to the Hall and for their cameras at a life-size figure of Jonah Lomu which the Board is grateful. or at the kayaks Ian Ferguson and Paul MacDonald used. Others go through the Roll of Honour, which As always we owe much to Ron and Kathy Palenski comprises photos and biographical details of all for another year of tireless contribution and our Honoured Members, or read every detail of how appreciation includes John Spicer and Helen the 1888 Natives rugby team introduced the black Watkins also. jersey and the silver fern to the sporting world. By whichever count, the auditable figure or the indiscriminate counter, the figures are pleasing and vindicate everything we’ve been trying to do for the past two decades. The idea in the first place in the late 1980s of establishing a Hall of Fame to recognise and remember New Zealand’s greatest sports achievers was a good one; a large number of John Beattie organisations fell in behind to make it happen but Chairman few have stayed the distance as the Hall has gone from an idealistic dream to a practical museum. Naturally, we are forever grateful to the funders we have: Sport New Zealand is a successor organisation to one of the founders, the Hillary Commission, and it has remained with us. So too has the Dunedin City Council since answering the call for expressions of interest in 1997 when it was decided to establish a physical hall, a museum, rather than operate out of a rented office in Wellington to which there was no public access. Dunedin was the only city to respond positively. Chief Executive’s Report We are grateful too for continued political The New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame passed a encouragement with party alliance of no matter. milestone in the year under review by gaining more than 10,000 visitors in a year for the first time. The The Hall too has been the beneficiary of an final tally was 10,254, beating by a comfortable increasing amount of memorabilia to the extent margin the previous highest of 9,838 which was that we are rapidly running out of room. Honoured recorded in our first year open in Dunedin. Members provide material, but so too members of the general public who think the Hall a better But wait, as the infomercials say, there’s more! The repository for grandad and grandma’s old books total was a strict record of those who paid to enter and things than an unlooked-at drawer or, even as well as 817 school pupils who were not charged. worse, a tip. During the Lions tour, we were able But for the first full year, we have been able to record to display the jersey worn by the Irish fullback, the number of people crossing our threshold, that is, Maurice Finbar Landers, in the 1905 test against people entering the Hall but not actually paying to New Zealand in Dublin.