When the end was near, he was lying in his bed surrounded by his wife, his two sons, his daughter and his nurse.
He said to them, “Bernie, I want you to take the Merrylands houses. Sybil, you can take the flats over in Granville and Harris Park and Tom, you take the office buildings in Guildford.
Sarah, my dear wife, that will leave all the residential buildings in Parramatta CBD for you.”
The nurse was most impressed, and as Willie slipped away, she said to Sarah, “Your husband must have been a wonderful provider to have accumulated so much property,” Sarah replied, “Property? The old bastard has a paper round.”