Bunker claims at development site

MEMBERS from the Australian Bunker and Military Museum (ABMM) are not joking when they raise concerns about bunkers at Bundaberg Airport.

IT may be April Fools Day, but members from the Australian Bunker and Military Museum (ABMM) are not joking when they raise concerns about bunkers at Bundaberg Airport.

ABMM director Daniel Hultgren travelled to Bundaberg yesterday with a statutory declaration and photographs in hand that he says prove the existence of military bunkers.

Mr Hultgren believes the Bundaberg Regional Council had, in March last year, directed Berajondo Earthmoving and Haulage employees to destroy a bunker they came across, while developing land that will become Kensington Estate, a proposed air park.

Mr Hultgren said the part of the bunker that was stumbled on and was destroyed and filled in, while the remaining part of the tunnel has been left as it is.

But Berajondo Earthmoving and Haulage owner Sal Bonanno said, while they had uncovered unusual concrete, there was no tunnel or anything that resembled a “bunker”.

“We did find concrete bits underground and it was removed at the time, but it didn't go anywhere,” Mr Bonanno said.

Mr Bonanno said council had come to look at the concrete, but had not ordered it to be covered up.

Bundaberg Regional Mayor Lorraine Pyefinch said council had not been contacted by the ABMM about their new claims, but had done everything they could to investigate the group's information in the past.

“But we are not going to waste any more ratepayers' money on this,” Cr Pyefinch said.

Originally published as Bunker claims at development site