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Appendix One - The Wentworth Scale (text-only)

Name                Diameter
clay                less than 0.004 mm
silt                0.004 mm to 0.0625 mm
fine sand           0.0625 mm to 0.2 mm
medium sand         0.2 mm to 0.6 mm
coarse sand         0.6 mm to 1 mm
very coarse sand    1 mm to 2 mm
pebble (or gravel)  2 mm to 64 mm
cobble             64 mm to 256 mm
boulder             more than 256 mm


Appendix Two - The Beaufort Scale of Windspeed (text-only)

Scale Knots
  0     < 1
  1   1 - 3
  2   4 - 6
  3   7 - 10
  4  11 - 16
  5  17 - 21
  6  22 - 27
  7  28 - 33
  8  34 - 37
  9  41 - 47
 10  48 - 55
 11  56 - 63
 12     > 63


Appendix Three - Populations of HDB New Towns (text-only)

In 1993, 2.4 million people lived in HDB flats. They were distributed as follows:

Bedok [!]                 225324
Tampines [!]              198721
Ang Mo Kio                198237
Yishun                    183603
Bukit Merah               168145
Jurong West*              152992
Hougang*                  149474
Toa Payoh                 114419
Geylang                   112861
Clementi                   97789
Queenstown                 96115
Bukit Batok [!]            95005
Kallang / Whampoa          94156
Jurong East [!]            81900
Serangoon*                 69565
Bishan                     67329
Woodlands*                 67150
Central Area estates       60041
Bukit Panjang*             54284
Choa Chu Kang* [!]         46462
Pasir Ris* [!]             28092
Marine Parade [!] estates  26417
Other estates              23530

*These towns were not fully completed at the time of the URA [!] survey.


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