Format:	Test Piece Contest
Test Piece:	Le Message Royal 1888
Adjudicators:	James Barker
Venue:	Queen's Park, Harpurhey, Manchester

Position	Band	Conductor	Draw
1	Chadderton	Thomas Young	9
2	Nottingham Temperance Sax Tuba	Arthur Hindley	4
3	Haslingden Temperance	Charles Woodcock	13
4	Bredbury and Romiley	Joseph Ford	10
	Unsworth Public	Robert Jackson	1
	Millgate	John Holt	2
	Thornsett	G. W. Liddiard	3
	Shaw	J. Abbott	5
	St. Paul's Newton Hyde	James Burns	6
	Wood Street Mission	J. P. Varley	7
	All Saints Newton Heath	Smith Sellars	8
	Stockport Borough	Joseph Ford	9
Duplicate Band	Bradford Manchester	Thomas German	11
	Newton Heath Primitive Methodist	Smith Sellars	12
	Pendleton Old	James Frost	14
	Irwell Springs	W. I. Crossley	16
W	Blackburn Old
W Duplicate Band	Bradford (Manchester) Free Church

Promoted by Queen's Park Congregational Sunday School Band.
1st prize £4, silver plated cornet, silver mounted baton.
2nd prize £2.13s. and E flat tenor horn.
3rd prize B flat slide trombone.
4th prize £1.
March contest 1st (£1) Haslingden Temperance, 2nd Nottingham Sax-tuba.
16 bands competed.