Staff Reporters

TECHNOLOGY company HarvestRoad has appointed Damien Hass as UK-European manager.

Robert Harry Duffin has resigned as director of Midwest Corporation Limited; Brett Manning has also resigned as company secretary.

QPSX has announced it expects to lodge an appeal against the decision of the Munich Patent Court concerning the validity of the company’s German Segmentation and Reassembly patent

ManufacturerPrice: $570,000 plus stock

LISTED engineering company Clough and international project management company AMEC have been awarded an operations and maintenance services contract for ConocoPhillips’ Bayu-Unda

Proposed code: PRUIssue price: $0.20Principal activities: Gold exploration

Ambreen Chaudhri increased its relevant interest from 7,866,137 ordinary shares (20.2%) to 8,455,970 ordinary shares (21.714%).

Commonwealth Bank of Australia decreased its relevant interest from 26,439,892 ordinary shares (14.50%) to 24,526,324 ordinary shares (13.38%).

Lodged response to ASX query.

Explains the changes announced in the Federal Budget in May 2004 to the way you can claim an income tax write-off of grapevines.

Brett Matich has resigned as managing director of Aztec Resources Limited.

On Saturday September 18 UWA Extension will hold a seminar titled Increase Your Personal and Professional Productivity.

Proposed code: MALIssue price: $0.20Principal activities: Exploration and development of mineral sands.

Entrust Private Wealth Management Pty Ltd became a substantial shareholder with a relevant interest of  3,208,851 ordinary shares (7.57%).

Queste Communications Ltd increased its relevant interest from 7,866,137 ordinary shares (20.2%) to 8,455,970 ordinary shares (21.714%).

1,330,000 ordinary fully paid shares will be released from escrow on September 12.

A general meeting will be held on September 28 commencing at 2pm at the Holiday Inn City Centre, 788 Hay Street, Perth, Western Australia.

Richard Elliott has resigned as director and chairman of Hire Intelligence International Limited. The company has appointed Graeme Sampson as non-executive director.

FLEETWOOD has ascended to the S&P ASX 200 Index, as part of Standard & Poor’s September 2004 quarterly rebalance of its Australian Stock Exchange indices.

WESTERN Australia has the highest proportion of farms using computers and the Internet in the nation, according to the latest figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics.

Proposed code: AXCIssue price: $0.20Principal activities: Gold explorer

452 Capital Pty Ltd became a substantial shareholder with a relevant interest of 25,247,322 ordinary shares (5.049%).

AMP Ltd increased its relevant interest from 48,515,721 ordinary shares (95.79%) to 49,261,397 ordinary shares (97.26%).

Has secured an option to acquire a 75% interest in a gold venture in Brazil.

This fact sheet explains the new rule about WET credits for wine exported and then returned to Australia for retail sale http://ato.gov.au/distributor.asp?doc=/content/48512.htm

MARK Harrison has been appointed to the newly created training and development role with Clubs WA.

ANDREW Goatcher has joined Allens Arthur Robinson’s Perth office litigation and dispute resolution department as special counsel.

On Friday September 10 Blake Dawson Waldron will hold a half-day workshop titled Case Studies in Managing Parental Leave Issues at the Forrest Centre Perth.

THE Asian engineering sector is offering Australian businesses significant export opportunities, according to the Australian Trade Commission, Austrade.