Hurstville-Give You Want (s0100055)

About Hurstville

Welcome to Hurstville, Hurstville is a big suburb in the Sydney. It locate in Southern Sydney. From Hurstville to Sydney’s CBD just 15 kilometers' distance. It also near some main city in the southern area such as Kogarah and Rockdale. Most of this suburb's resident, come from China. Cantonese is the main language in this city, and the second language is English.
　

Languages other than English spoken at home (Table 1)

Languages	Hurstville
Cantonese	6,504	24.6%
Greek	3,522	13.3%
Arabic	2,777	10.5%
Macedonian	1,830	6.9%
Italian	1,383	5.2%
Mandarin	3,093	11.7%
Croatian	767	2.9%
Spanish	604	2.2%
Tagalog(Filipino)	559	2.1%

Source Community Relations Commission (CRC), The people of NSW-2001 Census

(City of Sydney, Cultural Policy and Strategy 2002-2004,http://www.hurstville.nsw.gov.au/)

A few history of Hurstville

1974 to 2001

Lugarno Ferry 1962

Today Hurstville 2006

1974 - The last journey of the Lugarno Ferry Punt 12 December - the service was provided for 131 continuous years.

1988 - Proclamation of Hurstville as a city 25 November.

1992 - St George Co-operative Building Society becomes the St
George Bank Limited on 1 July.

2001 - Hurstville's new library opens on the corner of Dora Street and Queens Road on 23 August.

(City of Sydney, Cultural Policy and Strategy 2002-2004,http://www.hurstville.nsw.gov.au/)