Staff Reporters

Charles Morgan has altered his position from executive chairman to non-executive chairman of Nido Petroleum.

Over August 16-20 the Australian Human Resources Institute will hold their WA State Conference, which is broken into a series of two seminar sessions in Bunbury and Perth.

Proposed code: OLYIssue price: $0.20

Chieftain Securities Ltd ceased to be a substantial shareholder.

Ambreen Chaudhri increased his relevant interest from 7,419,323 ordinary shares (19.052%) to 7,866,137 ordinary shares (20.2%).

Optus Networks Pty Ltd increased its relevant interest from 383,301,708 ordinary shares (75.24%) to 391,067,724 ordinary shares (76.76%).

150,000 ordinary fully paid shares will be released from Escrow On the 4 August 2004

Has issued 31,250,000 shares to professional investors at an issue price of $0.016 to raise $500,000 in working capital.

Once upon a time there were two technology companies which no-one in Perth dared criticise.

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

Image Resources NL became a substantial shareholder with a relevant interest of 4,200,000 ordinary shares (10.3%).

Arduina Holding BV increased its relevant interest from 14,908,935 ordinary shares (13.17%) to 16,966,718 ordinary shares (14.99%).

Commonwealth Bank Of Australia decreased its relevant interest from 20,893,855 ordinary shares (6.43%) to 17,190,041 ordinary shares (5.29%).

Lodged response to ASX query.

Steel manufacturing sub contractorPrice: $6 million

Greg Hahn has resigned from the board of directors at Matrix Metals Limited.

Ministry of Water, Land and Air Protection – British Columbia, Canada director Environmental Management Branch Eric Partridge; M-Co executive director Ken Chapman; Former Federal

Australian businesses are being encouraged to attend a new trade mission to Russia’s gas and oil rich Sakhalin Island announced recently.

Jackson Gold Ltd ceased to be a substantial shareholder.

Altera Capital Ltd increased its relevant interest from 7,419,323 ordinary shares (19.052%) to 7,866,137 ordinary shares (20.2%.)

Ambreen Chaudhri changed his relevant interest from 4,908,471 ordinary shares (5.337%) to 5,058,471 ordinary shares (5.043%).S8 Ltd

20,000 fully paid ordinary shares will be released from escrow on 30 July 2004.

Announced the completion of a private placement of 24 million shares at an issue price of 2.5 cents a share to clients of lead manager, Patersons Securities.

 Stuart Baldwin, Natasha Breach and James Scovell have been promoted to senior associates.

The feature on Western Australia’s top brands (WA Business News, July 22) was intriguing and I readily concede I concurred with most of the results.

Proposed code: STXIssue price: $0.20Principal activities: Oil and gas exploration.

Charles C. Fear became a substantial shareholder with a relevant interest of 3,075,000 ordinary shares (10.8%).

PBL (WA) Pty Ltd increased its relevant interest from 151,238,379 ordinary shares (30.86) to 169,103,205 ordinary shares (34.5%).

M&G Investment Management Ltd decreased its relevant interest from 11,686,585 ordinary shares (5.42%) to 4,062,194 ordinary shares (4.23%).