Format:	Own Choice from a Specified List
Adjudicators:	Joseph Walker
Venue:	Hermitage Field, West Lane, Chester-le-Street, County Durham

Position	Band	Conductor	Music	Draw
1	Rise Carr Rolling Mills	W. H. Crowther		13
2	Sunderland East End	John Mackintosh	Donizetti [arr. Round]	2
3	Willington	J. B. Wright		3
4	South Shields Harmonic	Joseph Greenwood		7
	Birtley League of the Cross	R. Swinburn		1
	Birtley Temperance	George Perry		4
	Heworth Colliery	George Perry		5
	Beamish Silver Model	Phineas Bower		6
	Sunderland Temperance	James Thurlow		8
	Thornley Colliery	M. Charlton		9
	Lumley Temperance	R. E. Barrass		10
	Brandon Colliery	G. W. Bowes		11
	Hartlepool Recreation	J. Byers		12

Test piece - chosen from:
Donizetti
Ireland
La Somnambula

1st prize £8.
2nd prize £5.
3rd prize £3.
4th prize £1.

March contest 1st (£1) Rise Carr Rolling Mills, 2nd (10s.) Birtley League of the Cross.

13 bands competed.