NRW’s Innisfail office to re-open after Cyclone Larry
Published Friday, 22 September, 2006 at 01:54 PM
Minister for Natural Resources and Water
The Honourable Kerry Shine
The Department of Natural Resources and Water’s (NRW) Innisfail office will re-open for business again next week (25 September), six months after being gutted by Cyclone Larry.
The office, located in the CanegrowersBuilding at 88 Rankin Street in the centre of Innisfail’s business district, has been operating from the Department’s South Johnstone office while the building was reconstructed.
Natural Resources and Water Minister Kerry Shine said local staff had done an amazing job to maintain service with very little disruption through difficult times.
“Cyclone Larry has had a devastating impact on far north Queensland. The efforts of local staff to assist the community as well as continue to provide the Department’s services have been magnificent,” Mr Shine said.
The Innisfail NRW service centre has four staff who work on state land asset management, as well as handling the Department’s public inquiries and sales in the district.
NRW Director-General Scott Spencer said staff ensured services resumed at South Johnstone within a fortnight of Cyclone Larry hitting the district in March this year and they saved and restored the vast majority of office records.
“Drying out volumes of waterlogged files so they can be maintained as transaction records was a painstaking job. It is a tribute to their perseverance at a time of community hardship and upheaval that more valuable records were not lost,” Mr Spencer said.
The Innisfail NRW office has a new contact phone number – 07 4048 3701.
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