Compiled by PHOEBE FALCONER
Motorway works
The Constellation Drive onramp northbound and offramp southbound on the Northern Motorway will be closed from 9pm to 5am tomorrow. Detours will be indicated.
Domain tunnel closed
The pedestrian tunnel that connects the Auckland Domain walkway with Ngahere Terrace, Parnell, is closed this week for upgrading. For more
information phone 379-2020.
Greens to speak
Green Party co-leader Rod Donald and Green MP Sue Bradford are holding a public meeting at 7pm in the Orewa Community Centre.
Open evenings at MIT
Manukau Institute of Technology is hosting free information sessions at 7pm today and tomorrow at MIT in Newbury St, Otara. Staff will be on hand to talk about programmes and to demonstrate facilities. Prospective students will have an opportunity to talk to present students. For more information phone 0800 62 62 52.
Tips on writing
Authors Peta Mathias, Denis Baker and Ron Giles share their secrets with aspiring scribes from 5.30pm today in the Grey Lynn Community Centre at 474 Great North Rd, Grey Lynn. Bookings are essential, phone 376-3577.
Therapy for parents
Kids driving you mad? Mt Eden-Eden North Plunket has organised a parenting evening with family therapist Diane Levy to provide some practical solutions for restoring sanity. It starts at 7.15 in the Fickling Centre at 546 Mt Albert Rd, Three Kings. Tickets are $15, phone 620-0420.
Lessons in the old days
Helen Pearce, a field officer with the Post Primary Teachers' Association, gives an audio-visual presentation today of the range of post-primary education available to girls before 1945. The schools include some still in existence, such as Baradene College and Diocesan School for Girls, and those now defunct, such as Auckland Ladies' College and Melmerley. The venue is Auckland Girls' Grammar School in Howe St (use Gate 2) and the presentation begins at 7.30pm. Admission and parking are free.
Tree for the Queen
Manukau City residents are invited to attend a tree-planting ceremony to commemorate the Queen's 50th jubilee at 11.30am tomorrow at the He Taonga Hiranga Whakanui Whanau millennium sculpture at Manukau City Centre on the corner of Wiri Station Rd and Great South Rd.
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