Club facilities
The Club's facilities are for the use of its members - please take advantage of them.
Bar | Kitchen | Sports amenities | Entertainment | Gaming machine room | Heritage
The Club maintains these facilities for your use and enjoyment. It's all done with volunteer labour, so if you can help in any way please don't be shy to put your hand up and volunteer too!
Bar
The bar is well-stocked with a range of popular beers, wines and spirits. Bagged snacks (chips, peanuts, Rashuns etc) and light hot meals are available from the bar at any time.
Bar hours depend on usage, but are currently as follows:
| Monday - Tuesday | 3.00 pm - about 8.00pm |
| Wednesday | 3.00 pm - about 9.00pm |
| Thursday - Saturday | 3.00 pm - midnight |
| Sunday | 3.00 pm - about 7.00 pm |
A sample of our prices:
Kitchen
The Club boasts a large, well-equipped commercial-style kitchen and servery. It's used for catering for the events that the Bowling Club and the RSA hold from 
time to time throughout the year.
Cooked meals are available from the kitchen on popular nights throughout the week - keep an eye on the news page for the menu!
Sports amenities
You're welcome to enjoy the Club's sports facilities on your visit. They include:
Lawn bowls. One weed green and an all-weather Astrograss green. To use the greens, you need to be a Bowling Club member, though RSA members are free to have a roll-up on the Astrograss green any time. There's a regular schedule of weekend and weekday galas, and occasional tournaments through the year. - Indoor bowls. If you feel like a roll-up, we can roll out the bowls mat for you. The floor's a little uneven, so you have to be good to impress!
Pool and snooker. The Club has two excellent slate-bed tables - a half-size pool table and a three-quarter size pool and snooker table. It's 50c a game, in the honesty box.- Darts. Two high-quality dartboards at the Club for darts playing members. Bring your own spears!
A series of club championship events in all sports is maintained throughout the year ... join us and show us how good you are!
Entertainment system
The 50" wide-screen plasma TV offers a range of Sky channels providing music, live sports and racing, and the range of free-to-air channels.
There's also a newly-installed sound system for background music or radio as club members wish.
Audio can be individually piped to different zones in the club - we can have live sports from the TV while members using the sports area or the lounge can each have the music of their choice.
Gaming machine room
A separate gaming machine room offers a choice of four modern $2 'pokies' with a range of games to select from.
The club encourages responsible gambling - have a flutter if you wish, but please don't throw your money away.
Community heritage
The Bowling Club began life in 1912, almost 100 years ago.
In the downstairs foyer you'll find historic photos from the Bowling Club's history. The honours boards dating back over that time are in the upstairs lounge, along with caricatures of some club members from days gone by, and photos from around Seatoun taken over the years.
The RSA carries the heritage of our military history over the years, and you'll find interesting memorabilia to browse through at the club. You can meet some Kiwi heroes - the New Zealanders awarded the Victoria Cross, like
- Willy Apiata who earned the VC for extreme bravery while on service with SAS in Afghanistan in 2004.
- Sir Charles Upham, the only combatant soldier ever to be awarded the VC twice, in 1941 and again in 1942.
- Sgt James Ward, who earned the VC in 1941 after he saved his aircraft and crew by climbing out along the wing to smother an engine fire, while flying over Holland.
- Sir Charles Heaphy the first Kiwi 'colonial' to be awarded a VC, during the New Zealand wars in 1864.
