BASEBALL WAAL LTD Annual Repor tt2 2002-2003002-2003 Sports Lotteries House MAJOR SPONSORS: Stephenson Avenue, Drug Free Mt Claremont Healthway Western Australia 6010 Department of Sport & Recreation Fielders Choice PO Box 57 Claremont WA 6910 ASSOCIATE SPONSORS: Phone: +61 8 9383 7735 Major League Baseball Fax: +61 8 9383 7737 Western Australian Lotteries Commission Email: [email protected] Sports Medicine Australia Web: www.baseballwa.asn.au Baseball WA Ltd ACN 087 442 822 ABN 21 522 890 CONTENTS NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING............................................................................................. 2 ACKNOWLEDGMENT …………………………………………………………………………………………….4 BOARD OF DIRECTORS........................................................................................................................... 5 CHAIRMAN’S REPORT ............................................................................................................................. 6 CHIEF EXECUTIVE’S REPORT .............................................................................................................. 11 DIRECTORS’ REPORT............................................................................................................................ 19 DIRECTORS’ DECLARATION................................................................................................................. 22 FINANCIAL STATEMENTS Statement of Financial Performance .............................................................................................23 Statement of Financial Position ..................................................................................................... 24 Statement of Cash Flows............................................................................................................... 25 NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS NOTE 1: Statement of Significant Accounting Policies ........................................................... 26 NOTE 2: Revenues from Ordinary Activities ........................................................................... 29 NOTE 3: Profit From Ordinary Activities .................................................................................. 29 NOTE 4: Cash Assets .............................................................................................................. 29 NOTE 5: Receivables............................................................................................................... 29 NOTE 6: Other Assets.............................................................................................................. 29 NOTE 7: Property, Plant & Equipment..................................................................................... 30 NOTE 8: Payables.................................................................................................................... 30 NOTE 9: Provisions.................................................................................................................. 30 NOTE 10: Other Liabilities ......................................................................................................... 30 NOTE 11: Contributed Equity..................................................................................................... 30 NOTE 12: Reserves ................................................................................................................... 31 NOTE 13: Retained Profit .......................................................................................................... 31 NOTE 14: Notes to the Statement of Cash Flows ..................................................................... 32 NOTE 15: Auditors Remuneration ............................................................................................. 33 NOTE 16: Post Balance Date Events ........................................................................................ 33 NOTE 17: Commitments And Contingent Liabilities.................................................................. 33 NOTE 18: Funds Held In Trust................................................................................................... 33 NOTE 19: Company Details....................................................................................................... 33 INDEPENDENT AUDIT REPORT............................................................................................................ 34 APPENDIX 1: STATE TEAM REPORTS . …………………………………………………………………….35 APPENDIX 2: MAJOR EVENTS .............. …………………………………………………………………….45 APPENDIX 3: DEVELOPMENT ............... …………………………………………………………………….46 APPENDIX 4: ALL STAR TEAMS.................………………………………………………………………….55 APPENDIX 5: PREMIERSHIP STANDINGS ………………………………………………………………….57 APPENDIX 6: BASEBALL WA AWARDS .....………………………………………………………………….71 Page .1 BASEBALL WA LIMITED ACN 087 442 822 Notice of Annual General Meeting Notice is hereby given that the Annual General Meeting of Baseball WA Limited will be held at the Wembley Baseball Club, Jersey Street Jolimont at 6:30pm on Wednesday 24 September 2003. AGENDA 1. APOLOGIES 2. MINUTES OF THE PREVIOUS MEETING 2.1 Annual General Meeting of 25 Sept 2002 (Refer attached) 3. ELECTION OF DIRECTORS 4. ORDINARY BUSINESS 4.1 Chairman’s Report (To be tabled) 4.2 Financial Statements (To be tabled) To receive and consider the Financial Statements, Directors’ Declaration and Reports of the Directors and Auditors in respect of the year ended 30 June 2003. 5. GENERAL BUSINESS 6. CLOSE Dated at Perth this 3rd day of September 2003 BY ORDER OF THE BOARD Company secretary Page .2 NOTES: 1. Representatives and Alternates Every Member which or who is the holder of an Ordinary Share in Baseball WA Limited must appoint one or more natural persons as its representative or representatives to exercise the powers of that Member. Where more than one representative has been so appointed, only one of them may exercise the powers of that Member at any one time. 2. Proxies and Representatives’ Appointments Any instrument appointing a proxy or representative is to be treated as valid if the instrument and any power of attorney or other authority under which it is signed is or are either: (a) deposited at Baseball WA’s registered office (Suite 5, Sports Lotteries House, 85 Stephenson Avenue, Mt Claremont WA) at least 48 hours before the scheduled time for the commencement of the relevant meeting; or (b) presented to the chairman of the meeting as soon as practicable after the commencement of that meeting and, in any event, before the relevant vote is taken. 3. Postal Votes (a) A Member which is a Country Association may, if none of its representatives is available to attend the meeting, exercise a postal vote on any matter contained in the notice of meeting instead of appointing a proxy for the meeting. (b) A form of voting paper for postal voting is attached. To be valid, postal votes must be signed by a representative of the relevant Member (which signature may be a facsimile or electronic signature) and must be submitted so as to be received at the registered office of Baseball WA (see above) at any time up to 2 clear days prior to the day of the relevant meeting. The Board will make provision for postal votes to be submitted by post, by facsimile transmission or by electronic mail. (c) No proceeding of any general meeting will be invalidated or otherwise open to challenge in any way by reason of any failure to take a postal vote into account. 4. Quorum A quorum for a general meeting is 20% or more of Members present in person, by representative or by proxy. 5. Election of Directors The 3 candidates polling the highest aggregate of votes and the 2 polling the next highest aggregate in a ballot conducted in accordance with section 201E(2)(b) of the Corporations Law will be appointed as directors of the company in accordance with Rule 8 of the company’s Constitution for a period of two years and one year respectively as from the conclusion of the meeting: • NIGEL MILLS • SAMANTHA NOALL • ROBERT WEIR • LES WARNER • PETER ALLPIKE • ALLAN BLAIR Page .3 ACKNOWLEDGMENT Baseball WA formally acknowledges the contribution of the following Life Members of the former West Australian Junior Baseball League and West Australian Baseball League to the development of the game in this state. Our heartfelt appreciation is extended to each. 1947 G.H. Dunstan O.B.E. * 1951 W.H. Hosken * 1953 L.F. Matthew * 1955 H.V. Barrett * 1957 H.J. Kortlang * 1958 T.G. Nisbett * 1959 M.G. Muggleton * 1960 R.M. Gordon 1963 R.J. McFarlane * 1964 L.R. Brain * 1965 H. Duncan * 1967 R.D. Arrowsmith 1970 N.J. Pratt O.A.M. 1971 M. Heron 1972 A. Leutchford * 1973 P. Solomon 1974 D. Callanan 1974 N. Laird * 1977 D. Corker 1978 K. Parry A.O. 1979 R.P. Byrne 1980 N. Goodridge 1981 D. Osborn 1982 A. Dyer 1983 K. Dyer 1984 E. Harvey 1985 J. Cole 1986 E. Knight * 1988 J. Thurley 1988 D. Rodger 1989 C. Guest 1989 R. Corker 1990 I. Ross 1992 J. Radalj 1993 M. Mount 1995 U. Wade 1996 A.F. Luscombe 1997 G.H. Johnson 1998 T. Monro * Deceased Page .4 BOARD OF DIRECTORS NIGEL MILLS PETER ALLPIKE CHAIRMAN JO HOBBS-BROWN MICHAEL JOHNSON JOHN RADALJ RETIRED ROD BYRNE JOHN CLAXTON SUE REID MURRAY WESTPHAL BASEBALL WA STAFF DAMIAN O’DONNELL VINCE BAKER CHERYL POUSTIE MICHELLE RICHARDSON Chief Executive Operations Manager Registrar Bookkeeper Page .5 CHAIRMAN’S REPORT It is with much pleasure that I table my report as chairman of Baseball WA Ltd for the year ending 30 June 2003. Before moving to the body of my statement I would like to offer