Staff Reporters

This is the quarterly edition of the GST rulings update issued by the Tax Office for the period May 1 to July 31.

The Institute for International Research will host a Petroleum Data and Information Management Conference over September 14 to 19 at the Mercure Hotel.

CLINICAL Cell Culture is heading to the UK, setting up a corporate office in Cambridge.

Code: OLYOpening price: $0.185Principal activities: Exploration of mineral sands, abrasives and other industrial metals.

National Australia Bank Ltd Group  became a substantial shareholder with a relevant interest of 11,088,749 ordinary shares (7.86%).

Chwee Cheng Ng increased his relevant interest from 32,116,605 ordinary shares (7.12%) to 36,777,077  ordinary shares (8.16%).

Has entered into a heads of agreement with Placer Dome Asia Pacific Ltd to develop the Rose Dam gold deposit on YMWA's Credo tenements, 35 km north west of Kalgoorlie.

A general meeting will be held at Fortescue House, 50 Kings Park Road, West Perth  on September 15 at 10am.

Reminder that amendment requests may need to be lodged as a result of the enactment of the replacement provision for section 109UB.

MICHAEL Smith has been appointed chairman of the board of the UWA Perth International Arts Festival.

Glengarry Resources Limited has appointed Keith McKay as non-executive director of the company.

JOYCE Corporation has recorded an after tax profit of $2.35 million for 2003-04, an increase of nearly 14 per cent on the previous year.

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

PBL (WA) Pty Ltd increased its relevant interest from 322,218,769 ordinary shares (65.74%) to 393,496,958 ordinary shares (80.28%).

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.