Staff Reporters

R.C. Doak ceased to be a substantial shareholder

Equity Trustees Ltd as RE for SGH Prof Investor Smaller Companies Trust became a substantial shareholder with a relevant interest of 5,486,624 ordinary shares (5.896%)

Rockfield Investments Ltd changed its relevant interest from 63,890,128 ordinary shares (25.22%) to 81,555,158 ordinary shares (20.2%)

Shareholder Share Purchase Plan that was recently offered to all Arafura shareholders has raised A$5.58 million dollars

Is to divest NSW gold assets via a trade sale or separate IPO.

HOT on the heels from the superannuation scandal surrounding his former pharmacy employees, Police and Justice Minister John Dorazio's financial dealings are in the spotlight again.

MARK Ashley (above) will join Perth-headquartered resources explorer Apex Minerals NL as chief executive officer and managing director to steer it through a $7 million expansion phase.

Proposed code: EDE, Issue price: $0.20, Principal activities: alternate energy exploration, Corporate: Gregory Howard Solomon (executive chairman), Gregory Joseph Egan (executive director), Douglas Ho

Andy Peppercorn has been appointed as general manager construction at Pindan. Mr Peppercorn comes to Pindan having spent two years with BGC Construction.

Meeting minutes for the CRM workshop held in Sydney on 18 Jan 2006 http://ato.gov.au/distributor.asp?doc=/content/71860.htm Published: April 7 2006

M&G Investment Management Ltd M&G Ltd became a substantial shareholder with a relevant interest of 23,633,525 ordinary shares (9.69%)

FMR Corp increased its relevant interest from 4,176,141 ordinary shares (6.03%) to 7,176,471 ordinary shares (10.29%)

UBS Nominees Pty Ltd increased its relevant interest from 9,893,145 ordinary shares (7.46%) to 11,407,158 ordinary shares (8.60%)

1,688,954 Ordinary fully paid shares are due to be released from Voluntary Escrow on April 26, 2006.

General Meeting will be held at 10.00am on 8 May 2006 at The Celtic Club, 48 Ord Street, West Perth,

THE Peel region is going wild with the recent opening of the $2.5 million Peel Zoo on seven acres of leasehold land in the Murray River Estate at Ravenswood.

Superbly presented 80 seat coffee lounge in rapidly expanding area. Turnover has been steadily increasing (14.6% increase in first 7 weeks 2006). Recently refurbished. Very well documented.

Proposed code: ICV, Issue price: $0.20, Principal activities: biotechnology, Corporate: Dr Tracy Mynott (director), Samuel Willis (director), David McAuliffe (director), Dr Patrizia Washer (director),

SOUTH Perth-based Prime Solar Pty Ltd has announced plans to establish a manufacturing facility in Germany to produce 680MW per annum silicon wafers with an estimated project cost of $700 million.

Major Sam Cochran from the Memphis Police Department in the US to speak at the UWA Extension's Crisis Intervention seminar on mental illness, May 12 at the UWA Campus.

In the airLondon: Air Mauritius business class $4,185 including taxes. 1300 553 028.

Dale Monson became a substantial shareholder with a relevant interest of 387,315,438 ordinary shares (6.71%)

A.B.C. Learning Centres Ltd increased its relevant interest from 38,672,873 ordinary shares (34.47%) to 40,715,837 ordinary shares (36.32%)

Commonwealth Bank of Australia decreased its relevant interest from 19,334,785 ordinary shares (10.06%) to 14,884,978 ordinary shares (7.75%)

Announced the recent signing of a conditional agreement to acquire South African distribution group, Professional Medical Supplies (Pty) Ltd by its South Africa subsidiary, Eastland Medical Systems S

Planning and Infrastructure Minister Alannah MacTiernan revealed another cost blow-out of $50 million for the Mandurah rail line project this week and pushed its completion date back to July 2007.

WESTERN QBE Insurance has moved to premises in the newly named QBE House, formerly Mt Newman House, next to Cloisters Square.

Proposed code: MMB, Issue price: $0.20, Principal activities: base and precious metals exploration, Corporate: Dr Keith P Watkins (managing director), Ralph R G Porter (technical director), Max D J Co

Angel Newland, Kathy Zdanowicz and Paul Hodgkinson have joined People Telecom's ever growing sales team, specialising in corporate voice and data.

New and revised individual sections of the manual have been released. The latest updates relate to section C3 of the manual – ‘Losses', and have a currency date of 6 April 2006.

Australian Coal Corporation Pty Ltd ceased to be a substantial shareholder

Greenwich Resources plc increased its relevant interest from 67,755,610 ordinary shares (84.02%) to 69,036,174 ordinary shares (85.61%)