Staff Reporters

PBL’s offer will now be increased by 6 cents per Burswood share.  PBL’s offer will close at 7pm Sydney time (5pm Perth time) on Thursday 2 September 2004 and will not be extended.

Is to acquire Western Area NL’s 70% interest in the Golden Valley Tenements for 550,000 ordinary shares in Polaris valued at approximately $100,000.

Has reached agreement to place 100,000,000 fully paid ordinary shares at 0.5 cents and 50,000,000 options at 0.1 cent to raise $550,000 (before raising costs) to clients of Montag

Californian Air Resources Board, chairman, Dr Alan Lloyd; Toyota Motor Corporation, general manager - Fuel Cell Commercialisation Conference of Japan, Hideaki Akamatsu; Chinese Ac

ASSET Backed Holdings, the company making a takeover play for Christmas Island phosphate miner Phosphate Resources Limited, has turned down a deal to buy Chinese phosphate-based c

THE seasonally adjusted volume of new residential building work done in WA decreased by 0.8 per cent between the March and June quarters, but rose by 5.7 per cent through the four

A JOINT venture between the Rio Tinto WA Future Fund and Scitech is bringing the Kalgoorlie Science Awareness Expo to the Golfields centre from September 16 to 18.The event is des

Donald M Okeby became a substantial shareholder with a relevant interest of 31,550,001 ordinary shares (15.76%).

Acorn Capital Ltd increased its relevant interest from 23,968,837 ordinary shares (9.66%) to 42,256,812 ordinary shares (11.29%).

A general meeting will be held at Level 8, Septimus Roe Square, 256 Adelaide Terrace, Perth at 10am on September 24.

Practical advice to help taxi drivers correctly report business income and expenses for goods and services tax (GST).

CURTIN University of Technology has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with a major Indonesian oil and gas training provider.

CHRIS Stevenson has been appointed as the presiding member of the Gas Review Board.

CASH Converters has made a $3.8 million profit for the 2003-04 year, up about 36 per cent on the previous year.

Proposed code: LNGIssue price: $0.20

Jürg Walker  increased his relevant interest from 54,500,000 ordinary shares (16.36%) to 74,153,500 ordinary shares (17.17%).

Commonwealth Bank Of Australia decreased its relevant interest from 19,924,902 ordinary shares (9.21%) to 18,130,693 ordinary shares (8.09%).

Has agreed to acquire the existing 10 per cent net Profit Interestlife of mine royalty from Clara Resources Pty Ltd, which relates to the key mining leases including the Radio Hil

General meeting will be held at Level 31, Allendale Square, 77 St George's Terrace, Perth, Western Australia on September 24 at 10am.

The Industrial Relations Commission of New South Wales has found that an employer was justified in standing down workers who refused to participate in a job safety analysis, reinf

The Western Australian Trade Enquiry Service is operated by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Western Australia (CCI) with the support of the WA Government’s Department of I

RICK Cullen, Ed Babington and Michael Hughes have joined forces to create Claremont-based law firm Cullen Babington Hughes.

IF anyone is ever silly enough to run a competition to find the sickest company on the stock market, and Briefcase could be just the place for such a game, then it would be hard t

COOPERATIVE Bulk Handling marketing subsidiary Agracorp has donated 50 tonnes of milling quality oats to Foodbank WA to help people in need.

Peter J Newton became a substantial shareholder with a relevant interest of 32,935,001 ordinary shares (16.47%).

Yee Teck Teo increased its relevant interest from 3,047,396 ordinary shares (7.62%) to 3,500,884 ordinary shares (8.76%).

250,000 ordinary fully paid shares will be released from escrow on September 11 and 499,999 Ordinary Fully Paid Shares on September 17.

In conjunction with MPI Mines Ltd, is considering the sale of its 50% interest in the Coolgardie gold mining operations.

Information for tax practitioners about an error in the Guide to capital gains tax 2003-04 in the ‘Treatment of convertible notes acquired after May 10 1989’ table.

THE owners of Westralia Property Trust last week announced a profit of $850,000 for the last financial year, an increase of 170 per cent on the previous year’s profit.