Format:	Own Choice Test Piece Contest
Adjudicators:	Joel Englefield
Venue:	Cricket Ground, Farnworth

Position	Band	Conductor	Music	Draw
1	Boarshurst	Alexander Owen	Oberon [arr. Owen] 1898	1
2	Rochdale Borough	Alexander Owen	Le Prophete [arr. Owen]	8
3	Radcliffe Temperance	Alexander Owen	Tannhäuser [arr. Gladney]	7
4	Trawden	Alexander Owen	Robert il Diavolo [unknown arranger]	4
	Besses o th Barn	John Gladney	Stiffelio [arr. Gladney] 1874	2
	Southport Volunteers	H. Round	Operatic Selection [unknown arranger]	3
	Glossop Borough	S. Broadbent	Les Huguenots [arr. Godfrey] 1906	5
	Bradshaw	Alfred Monks	Les Huguenots [arr. Godfrey] 1906	6
	Chorlton-cum-Hardy	Harry L. Holding	Stiffelio [arr. Gladney] 1874	9
	Accrington Old	John Gladney	William Tell [arr. Gladney] 1874	10
	St. Johns Farnworth	Unknown		11
W	Black Dike Mills
W	Stalybridge Old

Prizes - 1st £15 and cornet, 2nd £8 and trombone, 3rd £6, 4th £2.
March contest - 1st(£1.5s.) Southport Volunteers, 2nd (10s.) Bradshaw.
13 bands entered, 11 (10) competed
St Johns only competed in the quickstep contest