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Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 3, Issue 252, 1 December 1914, Page 3

The revised service of trains for the summer months came into operation as from to-day (December Ist). Trains now leave Auckland at 9.15 a.m. for Thames and 10 a.m. lor Rotorua, calling at Pukekohc at 10.37 and 11.12 a.m. respectively. In the afternoon the Rotorua train due at Auckland at 4 p.m. calls at Pukekohe at 2.51 p.m., the train from Thames to Auckland taking up the usual stop at'tPukekoho at 3 38 p.m. At present the gun of largest calibre used in any ship of war is the 13.5 weapon with which our new Dreedr.ought, the Queen Elizabeth, is armed. Another ship* nearly completed when the war broke out aid by now probably ready to take the sea, is armed with ten 15 inch gans, the projectiles of which are capable of piercing armour more than twice as fiick as that protecting any ship afloat. Gigantic as these guns are they are not by any means the heaviest or the largest in bore that have been carried by our ships Ah far back as 1887 the Benbow was armed with two monsters, weighing 111 tons each, and with 16J inch bore. They had not, however, either the range or the penetrating power of modern guns of much smaller size. In the German capital ships the usual arm is the 11 inch guns, but one or two of them carry 12's, and some of those designed are to be armed with the 15 inch weapon. Fortunately, these latter cannot be launched for at least two years.