Welcome to NSX CALLS, eNewsletter of the Stock Exchange of Newcastle Limited.

In this Issue:

• Commencement of trading
• NSX price information
• NSX Company Announcements (RNS)
• Participating Organisations

COMMENCEMENT of TRADING

Trading commenced on the Stock Exchange of Newcastle Limited on Tuesday 5th December 2000 at 10.30 am AEST.

At the commencement of trading there were two listed securities being the

ordinary shares of Pegmont Mines NL (NSXCODE: PMI) and Winpar Holdings Limited (NSXCODE: WPH).

The listing of Pegmont Mines NL was sponsored by Pritchard & Partners Pty. Limited with Winpar Holdings Limited's listing being sponsored by Cameron Stockbrokers Limited.

39,000 shares in Pegmont Mines NL traded on the first day at a 15% premium to their issue price. No trades were recorded in Winpar Holdings Limited.

The Stock Exchange of Newcastle Limited is only the second operational stock exchange in Australia and provides a specialised capital market for the securities of small medium and regionally based enterprises.

NSX PRICE INFORMATION

Price data for each listed company is available from the NSX website on a delayed basis. The delay is 20 minutes. Full trading history is also available from the website for each company.

NSX REGULATORY NEWS SERVICE

The NSX website distributes NSX Company announcements via the Regulatory News Service (RNS). The RNS allows reporting companies to submit their announcements in either Adobe Acrobat PDF format or in Microsoft Word format. The advantage of RNS is that the style, presentation and fully contained information are available to investors to review as reported by the company.

The service provides announcements on a 20 minute delayed basis for free or on a real time basis for free until 30 June 2001. After 30 June 2001 existing subscribers will be given the opportunity to re-subscribe to the real time service. Interested parties wishing to subscribe to the real time RNS can do so by filling out the on line registration form.

The adobe acrobat reader is available for free download from http://www.adobe.com/prodindex/acrobat/readstep.html.

PARTICIPATING ORGANISATIONS

The participating organisations of the exchange are

1. Pritchard & Partners Pty. Limited Telephone 02 4969 2877
2. Toll Free:1800 134 234
3. Cameron Stockbrokers Limited Telephone 02 9232 7700
4. Toll Free:1800 657 753
5. Salomon Smith Barney Australia Securities Pty Ltd 02 9321 4200
6. Scorers (Newcastle) 02 4929 4954
7. J M Tonkin & Co (Newcastle) 02 4929 1541
8. H H Walls & Co (Newcastle) 02 4926 2633
9. Westpac Broking 02 8234 4502
10. Reynolds & Company Pty Limited 02 9247 4452

For further information on listing on the Stock Exchange of Newcastle Limited, please contact:

Steven Pritchard,
Chairman
2877

web: https://www.newsx.com.au

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