Staff Reporters

General Meeting will be held at Level 2, Claymore House, 63 Fort Street, Auckland, New Zealand, on Friday, 27 April 2007 at 10.00 am

THE invitation by State Scene columnist, Joe Poprzeczny, to comment on Peter Coyne’s Wheatbelt desalination plan is appreciated (WA Business News, March 1).

IINET is set for a much bigger windfall from Telstra after the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission last week advised the Perth-based ISP that the final price it was likely to force Telstra

The Capital Group Companies Inc became a substantial shareholder with a relevant interest of 16,100,000 ordinary shares (5.92%).

FMR Corp & FIL decreased its relevant interest from 48,492,965 ordinary shares (8.39%) to 40,061,252 ordinary shares (6.91%).

Advises that RCR Heat Treatment Pty Ltd (formerly trading as RCR Austheat Pty Limited) (“RCRHT”), a subsidiary of RCR, has received a letter of demand from Goldamere Pty Limited trading as Australian

FORMER City of Geraldton chief executive officer Rob Jefferies has been appointed to the Geraldton Iron Ore Alliance as Mid West liaison officer.

Yoke Yee Chang has joined Blake Dawson Waldron’s commercial litigation group, having previously been with Tottle Partners Lawyers for the past four years.

The Tax Office has warned people about a fraudulent email being circulated that claims to offer a refund from the Tax Office http://www.ato.gov.au/distributor.asp?doc=/content/content/00095866.htm Pub

Vincenzo Soresi - Chef/owner, Galileo Buona Cucina

Oxiana Group increased its relevant interest from 118,985,989 ordinary shares (55.25%) to 137,949,629 ordinary shares (64.05%).

Elixir Petroleum Ltd & Gawler Resources Ltd have announced an agree proposal to merge their businesses.

General Meeting will be held at The Celtic Club, 48 Ord Street, West Perth, Monday 30th April 2007 at 10:00am.

EUROZ head of industrial research Tim Andrew has quit the Perth stockbroking group less than 18 months after taking on the job following a 16-year career with Deutsche Bank in Hong Kong and the USA.

Data management and recovery specialist SpectrumData has appointed Graham Farebrother as data centre manager. Mr Farebrother recently moved back to Australia after eight years overseas.

The Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia (ICAA) is holding a business forum consisting of over 40 session and 35 speakers, covering a wide range of business topics and issues, May 9 and 10

St.Barbara Ltd ceased to be a substantial shareholder.

Ariadne Australia Ltd increased its relevant interest from 9,672,402 ordinary shares (6.90%) to 15,672,402 ordinary shares (11.18%).

Has entered into an Agreement with Fairfax Digital, the online subsidiary of Fairfax Media Limited [ASX:FXJ] and Singapore based ANYTIME Pte Limited to act as the exclusive ISP promotional and billing

PERTH-BASED burns treatment developer Clinical Cell Culture Ltd, or C3, last week announced it would close its American offices and sell its CellSpray technology after completing a strategic review of

CAVE-DWELLING fauna could threaten a Pilbara iron ore mine and processing plant proposed by Rio Tinto after the Environmental Protection Authority recommended against the development.

Explains the transitional non-concessional super contributions cap and how to release excess non-concessional contributions made between May 10 2006 and December 6 2006.

BUSINESS AND TRADE

VOF Investment Ltd became a substantial shareholder with a relevant interest of 19,444,444 ordinary shares (12.1%).

MIR Investment Management Ltd decreased its relevant interest from 13,729,479 ordinary shares (7.44%) to 10,258,035 ordinary shares (5.51%).

Has signed a binding Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Hong Kong based Jinshu Investment Group for the raising of a minimum of A$3m to its sophisticated investor clients.

WESTERN Australians appear to be heeding the slip, slop, slap message if the recent explosion in solarium numbers is anything to go by.

International subsea engineering company MCS has appointed Dean Hewitt and John Slater to lead its business development across the rapidly expanding Australian and South East Asian oil and gas markets

THE NCS Group started in 1986 when Chris Codrington established NCS Communications to provide a range of public relations and marketing services to the business community, both nationally and in Weste

Nathan Bruce MacMahon increased its relevant interest from 1,470,000 ordinary shares (5.72%) to 1,720,000 ordinary shares (6.7%).

Announce that it has today signed a Long Term Off-take Agreement for up to 20 million tonnes p.a. of iron ore with the wholly owned subsidiary Baosteel Trading Co Ltd

SHARES in Perth-based biodiesel producer Mission Biofuels Ltd jumped more than 12 per cent on Monday following news of a $50 million capital raising to fund its Indian and Malaysia expansion plans.