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NZPA Sydney The father of a teen-age boy who fell to his death while trying to get a good view of Tuesday evening’s international at'the Sydney Cricket Ground has called for the playing of a special one-day match for children, during school holdiays. Mr Bill Moore said his son. Slewart. aged . 15. had climbed on the roof of the Manufacturers’ hall at the Sydney Showground because
he desperately warned to see I Australia play in the vital match against the West ■ Indies. i The boy died three hours I later after falling 18 metres !
through the roof of the hall on to a concrete floor. About 40 children were on the roof trving to see the cricket after the cricket ground gates were closed because of the near-record crowd of 52.000. “He was too keen to miss the game." said Mr Moore. "Every other time he has been able to get in." The Moores have two other children, a son aged 24. and a daughter aged 22.
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