The Whangarei RSA Bowling Club is pressing on with plans to auction its buildings and assets at the end of the month.
And the Whangarei RSA has gone under cover with any plans to prevent the bowlers from selling up and bailing out of the Rust Ave site shared by the old soldier organisations.
The bowlers last month decided to wind up their club because the RSA was looking at charging them for using their clubrooms and green.
Returned servicemen had built the green in 1947 using shovels and wheelbarrows after allegedly contributing 30 per cent of the site purchase price. Bowlers also claim they paid for their clubrooms and had no intention of paying rent to use them.
On Friday the RSA placed a public notice in Saturday's Northern Advocate advising that the bowlers had no legal right to sell their clubrooms as all buildings on the Rust Ave site belonged to the RSA.