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More than 200 members of the Rotorua RSA now have a place to meet, dine and socialise after the Rotorua Club offered its facility for use.
For the past seven years, Rotorua RSA has had nowhere to hold its gatherings as it has not had any clubrooms.
Rotorua Club manager Colin Wood said he asked the Rotorua RSA to join the club at the RSA's annual general meeting in March.
"I said to them, I believe in RSAs and we're dying in Rotorua.
''You do not have a clubroom, they've only got an office downstairs, they've got 200 members and where do you go?"
"Rotorua needs an RSA and our club has offered for it to come in."
The club had gaming machines, TAB facilities, snooker and pool tables, dart boards, a restaurant and a function area, Wood said.
Wood said some RSA members were already going to the club.
"The positive thing is that everybody in New Zealand that belongs to an RSA can go there. That's the biggest thing.
"Rotorua needs that identity that the Rotorua RSA is alive still.''
Rotorua RSA president Jason Ramsay said it had been in talks and negotiations with the Rotorua Club for "quite some time" about members using its facilities.
The RSA had 215 members.
Ramsay said he also had a lot of visitors from outside the region asking him where the RSA was.
"And obviously, for some time, we haven't had any clubrooms."
Ramsay understood the RSA lost its clubrooms seven years ago. It had been operating out of its office at the racing club since then.
