LEGACY & EDUCATION EXHIBITIONS / DISPLAYS Donations and Bequests Percentage or Fractional Bequest: this is where the person Multi-Media Touch-Screen Interactive NEW ZEALAND We ask that you take a moment to consider making a donation making the bequest decides to distribute their estate by Work has been progressing on the above project over the late winter and spring or bequest to the New Zealand Cricket Museum in your will. percentage terms. months. A significant amount of research and resource material has been CRICKET MUSEUM It can take the form of monies or items of a cricket collectable Specific Bequest: this is where an item or specific sum of gathered together in that time. This includes a large number of photographs of nature as described in the terms of the New Zealand Cricket money is gifted on death to the museum. players, broadcasters/commentators, and poets, plus Radio NZ Sound Archives Museum Collections Policy (please contact the museum for a recordings, and recordings of New Zealand cricket poetry and cricket comedy. Because we value your bequest, we are happy to discuss copy of this document). Selections of cricket music (via You Tube) and also player records/statistics from provisions being made to ensure your intentions are fulfilled the New Zealand Cricket website complete the broad scope of the project. If the donor wishes, monies can be bequeathed or donated for as instructed by your estate. a specific use such as a special museum project, to purchase Project briefs have been prepared, and completed, for the players and broadcasters/ An example of an admittedly very generous legacy was the items for the collection, or they can allow the New Zealand commentators/poets segments of the project, along with determinations on the Somerset Cricket Museum in England receiving more than Cricket Museum to use the money as it sees best. navigation paths, and decisions about the music and comedy segments, to provide £250,000 (approx. $500,000) in late 2009. Chairman a clear view of how all the material will finally come together in an innovative Your support and generosity will ensure that the New Zealand Charles Clive-Ponsonby-Fane stated that it was his hope that way on screen. The project has been fully costed, and budgeted, and with the cricket story survives for future generations through the work the legacy would “safeguard the well-being of the Somerset recently approved funding support from the New Zealand Community Trust, and of the New Zealand Cricket Museum. Cricket Museum for the generations to come.” to a much lesser degree, the Wellington Cricket Trust, real progress can now be A bequest is simply a gift made to the New Zealand Cricket Group Visits to the Museum made over the next three months or so by our touch-screen interactive technology Museum through your will. There are usually three types to developers and designer to develop and complete the project. It is planned that consider: School and community group visits are on schedule to equal the interactive will become available for use to the museum public on, or about, or surpass the Business Plan objective of 35 groups at the the 1st of April 2012. Residue Bequest: this is where you bequeath that part of end of the financial year. The 18 groups that have visited your estate which remains after the provisions made for your the museum in the last six months have included Take Five family. (Special Needs Group), Boulcott School (Lower Hutt), Wairarapa College, Waterloo School (Lower Hutt), YMCA Somerset Cricket Museum School Holiday Groups, NZ Basketball Group, Paraparaumu Chairman Charles Clive-Ponsonby- Probus, and Lauriston Primary School (South Canterbury). Fane and Curator Peter Yates (right) Also, attendees at the Heritage Month Launch on the 1st of cannot conceal their delight after September visited the museum, as did New Zealand Cricket receiving official notification of the legacy. Board members and delegates at the New Zealand Cricket Source: Somerset Cricket Museum AGM on the 27th of September. VISITS TO THE MUSEUM Phone: 04 385 6602 Email: [email protected] The Old Grandstand, Basin Reserve, Wellington Website: www.nzcricket.co.nz Public Hours Basin Reserve Tours Broadcaster/Commentator: Bryan Waddle 2010 Photographer: The Dominion Post Summer Season: 10.30 – 3.30pm Monday to Sunday and all match Tours can be organised to the New Zealand Cricket Museum, the Source: The Dominion Post days i.e. 01 November to 30 April. R.A. Vance Stand, the Groundsmen’s Shed and the perimeter of the Winter Season: 10.30 – 3.30pm Weekends only i.e. 01 May to 31 ground to view famous historical cricket plaques. October or by special arrangement. Facilities Schools & Group Hours Museum toilet including disabled toilet. Summer Season: Open Monday to Friday 10.30 – 3.30pm by prior Bus & car parking adjacent to the museum. arrangement (not match days). Museum shop stocks a variety of books, postcards, miniature cricket Winter Season: As above but by special arrangement. bats, balls etc. Admission Charges Lending Library $7 adults; $3 students/children. Children (12 years & under) free The library is available for lending, research and study purposes. if accompanied by an adult. Hours by arrangement. A cornucopia of cricket history. School groups $1 per student and $2 per adult. How To Find Us Other group visits by arrangement. By Car: Drive in/enter by the southern (J.R. Reid) Gate at the Basin Bookings Reserve. The museum welcomes school/group visits by prior arrangement. By Bus: Stagecoach Wellington. Buses 1, 42, 43, 44 travel to/from Daniel Vettori at training ahead of the second test match versus Australia in Hobart, Wednesday 7 December 2011 We appreciate at least two weeks notice to enable successful liaison Kent and Cambridge Terrace to the Central Railway Station. Photographer: Andrew Cornaga Source: PHOTOSPORT time with the Host/Guide and to ensure that you are able to book the By Rail: NZ Tranz Metro units depart from the Central Railway Station. most suitable times. By Foot: Enter the Basin by the northern or southern Gates and Player: Geoff Rabone 1949 Note: The museum can comfortably accommodate 25 students and proceed to museum. Photographer: Scarborough & Districts Newspapers Ltd Summer/Autumn Newsletter 2011-12 accompanying teachers and adults, split into two groups, at one General Private Collection Poet: Harry Ricketts 1990 time. Smoking, food or drink are not permitted. Photographer: Unknown Private Collection COLLECTION MANAGEMENT NEW ZEALAND CRICKET HISTORY BRIEFLY Interactive Project Photography Mural Glenn Turner’s World Record 83.4% of his Worcestershire started their innings in the final hour of the Museum Admission Price Increases The photographic mural of players, teams, grounds, broadcasters/commentators, and poets shown below on this page represents Team’s Score first day in which time Barry Jones and Phillip Neale were The museum increased its admission the total number of images included in the interactive and/or the two wall mounted murals that will be located in the interactive 141 not out of 169 for Worcestershire v out, having played second fiddle to Turner: Jones lbw at 18 for charges for adults and students on the 1st space in the museum. The images have been sourced from the museums photography collection and from public and private 1, Neale caught at the wicket for 3 when the score was 35, just of December. It is now $7.00 for adults Glamorgan, Swansea, Wales 1977 (previously $5.00) and $3.00 for students collections. The photo mural was composed by the museums photographer Mike Lewis. before stumps. Jim Cumbes was sent in as nightwatchman, (previously $2.00). Children 12 years of age Glamorgan 309/4 decl. (M.J. Llewellyn 91*, G. Richards 74*, A. Jones 48; though search Wisden and the county yearbook and that and under have free entry if accompanied N. Gifford 3/91) and 142/7 (R. Ontong 56, J. Hopkins 45; J. Cumbes 3/30, will not be apparent, for the more usual scorebook is listed, by an adult (no change). This is the first V.A. Holder 3/48) drew with Worcestershire 169 (G.M. Turner 141*; time in over eight years that admission PLAYERS A.E. Cordle 5/53, M.A. Nash 3/51). with Cumbes in his customary position at No. 10. At stumps charges have been increased and reflects Worcestershire was 42 for two, Turner 39, and next morning, the upgraded and enhanced display the overnight pair added 33 for the third wicket before Cumbes changes in the museum in that time, plus was out for 5. Then there was a horrible middle-order collapse – suggestions from an increasing number of St. Helen’s Ground, Swansea, Wales 1979 visitors that our admission charges were 71 for four (Hemsley 3), 71 for 5 (D’Oliveira 0), 82 for six (Patel The photo shows a Benson & Hedges Cup Match in Progress too low. 4), 87 for seven (Humphries 0), 93 for eight (Holder 4 – and Photo: Unknown that was a snick through slips, according to Turner). Avoiding Source: ‘Cricket Grounds – Then and Now’ by William A Powell New NZCM Board Members Wallis Barnicoat and Trish McKelvey the follow-on seemed a distant impossibility, though nothing have recently been appointed as Trustees was impossible with the remarkable Turner still there. He had to the NZ Cricket Museum Trust Board. reached his 50 – actually 52 out of 59 – in the 23rd over, or 70 Wallis is a former Director of the minutes with his eighth four, and when David Humphries was Whanganui Regional Museum, a Manager of Museum Development at the Museum out at 87, Turner was 70. of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, and is currently working on Project & Public Projects Development at Lateral Projects & Development in Melbourne.