Format:	March Contest
Adjudicators:	Geoffrey Whitham
Venue:	Oddfellows Club, Denshaw

Position	Band	Conductor	Music
1	Grimethorpe Colliery	Unknown	March: Mephistopheles
2	Navigation	Les Beevers	March: Senator
3	Marple	Unknown
	Boarshurst	Peter Cookson	March: Ravenswood
	Delph	Philip Goodwin	March: Mephistopheles
	Diggle	Unknown
	Dobcross Silver	Unknown
	Friezland	Unknown
	Rochdale Intermediate	Eric Landon
	Stalybridge	David Hirst	March: Mephistopheles
	Towneley High School	Unknown

Best local - Stalybridge.
Best Saddleworth - 1st Dobcross, 2nd Friezland.
Best section 3/4 - 1st Diggle, 2nd Delph.
Best youth - 1st Towneley, 2nd Rochdale.
Deportment - Boarshurst.
48 bands competed.