Format:	Own Choice Test Piece Contest
Adjudicators:	Harry Heyes
Venue:	City Hall, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Position	Band	Conductor	Music	Points
1	Crookhall Colliery	J. J. Stobbs	Resurgam 1950	194
2	Horden Colliery	John Dennis Scoins	Les Preludes [arr. Rimmer]	191
3	Cowpen and Crofton	John Carr	Life Divine 1921	190
4	Easington Colliery	Cecil Peacock	Le Roi d'Ys 1959	189
	Ashington Colliery	Unknown	Main Street 1961
	Blackhall Colliery	Unknown	Prometheus Unbound 1933
	Craghead Colliery	Unknown	The Frogs of Aristophanes 1952
	Harton Colliery	Unknown	Diadem of Gold 1953
	Thornley Colliery	Unknown	Beethoven's Works [arr. W. Rimmer]
	Wallsend Shipyard	Unknown	Festival Music (Symphonic Suite) 1956

10 bands competed.