Staff Reporters

Agreement has been reached with Sinom Resources Ltd to establish a 60:40 joint venture company to undertake gold tailings retreatment projects in five of the main gold producing Provinces in China; Sh

A General Meeting is to be held at the Celtic Club, 48 Ord Street, West Perth, Western Australia on Wednesday, 5 July 2006 at 10.00 a.m

LAST weekend Boral Concrete poured what is believed to be the largest single concrete pour of the past decade in laying the foundation for the 23-storey luxury Saffron Apartments in East Perth.

Geraldton’s foremost concrete batching plant with mini and maxi concrete agitator trucks.

Proposed code: EKM, Issue price: $0.20, Principal activities: gold exploration, Corporate: Richard Revelins (non-executive chairman), Richard Harris (managing director), Russell Davis (exploration dir

ALCOA of Australia Ltd completed a series of collective agreements with unions to cover more than 2,000 employees on its extensive WA bauxite mining and alumina refining operations.

Reports of a phoney company operating out of Sweden have prompted ASIC to reissue its warning to the Australian public regarding scammers posing as overseas stockbrokers and investment managers.

Lawyers Blake Dawson Waldron has appointed three new partners to its Perth office, effective from July 1.

Perth-headquartered electronic outdoor media company Lumacom Ltd has entered into a heads of agreement to purchase Hong Kong-based outdoor media services group Vertigo China Ltd.

Robert A J Smith ATF Vintage Trust ceased to be a substantial shareholder

Commonwealth Bank of Australia became a substantial shareholder with a relevant interest of 7,500,000 ordinary shares (8.26%)

Consolidated Minerals Ltd and Consolidated Nickel Pty Ltd increased its relevant interest from 131,827,987 ordinary shares (35.29%) to 137,385,089 ordinary shares (36.78%)

Announced that has signed a Letter of Intent to acquire Allied Diving Services, an offshore Oil & Gas and Civil Marine diving contractor based in Perth.

Announce that it will make a sophisticated investor placement of 6.5 million shares at 40 cents (Australian) each to raise A$2.6 million in new capital.

SUCCESS can sometimes be a double-edged sword. Deborah Pitter was the personification of youth and success.

ASX code: MMR, Issue price: $0.19, First days close: $0.15, Principal activities: pooled development fund, Corporate: Seng Yap (chairman), David Breeze (executive director), Charles Murphey (executive

Proposed code: LBT, Issue price: $0.20 , Principal activities: development of technology for use in the automation of microbiology laboratory processing, Corporate: Lusia Guthrie (managing director),

Gorn Polglase and Associates has appointed a new partner and director to head up its expanding financial planning division.

Cunderdin Agriculture College – repairs & maintenance - Progammed Maintenace Services - $317,856.00

RMB International (Dublin) Ltd became a substantial shareholder with a relevant interest of 3,847,607 ordinary shares (5.561%)

Kingsgate Consolidated Ltd and Kingsgate South America Pty Ltd increased its relevant interest from 27,910,400 ordinary shares (10.33%) to 38,799,628 ordinary shares (13.51%)

Resource Development Company Pty Ltd decreased its relevant interest from 5,972,536 ordinary shares (15.3%) to 4,382,536 ordinary shares (9.72%)

A General Meeting is to be held at The Celtic Club, 48 Ord Street, West Perth, on 30 June 2006 at 10.00am

WA Economic Regulation Authority chairman Lyndon Rowe will not be taking himself too seriously in his planned keynote address at the third Curtin Institute Public Policy Forum breakfast at the Parmel

Sales, service and fabrication. Excellent reputation, escalating figures and great workshop. Too busy for retiring owner. Netting $250,000+ and increasing. Plant $215,000.

Proposed code: MYG, Issue price: $0.20, Principal activities: gold exploration, Corporate: Frank Lawson (chairman), John Robert Greeve (managing director), Allan Richard George Brown (technical direct

National wealth creation company, WB Financial Management, has appointed Susan Joyce to its office in Subiaco.

The government will introduce an early stage venture capital limited partnership (ESVCLP). http://ato.gov.au/distributor.asp?doc=/content/74765.htm Published: May 31 2006

The University of WA Business School is holding a conference with the above theme, June 9 in the Case Study Room at the University Club in Crawley.

Rockdale Capital Pty Ltd ceased to be a substantial shareholder

FMR Corp. and FIL became a substantial shareholder with a relevant interest of 9,200,000 ordinary shares (9.48%)

Sandvik AB increased its relevant interest from 85,683,128 ordinary shares (92.08%) to 91,389,819 ordinary shares (98.21%)