Format:	Test Piece Contest
Test Piece:	Casket of Gems
Adjudicators:	J. W. Beswick
Venue:	Corpus Christi ground, Miles Platting, Manchester

Position	Band	Conductor	Draw
1	Middleton Borough	Alexander Owen	9
2	Dobcross	Charles Anderson	5
3	Shaw	A. Gray	6
4	Pendleton Public	Alfred Gray	16
5	Crosfield's	Edward Smith	15
6	Radcliffe Public	Christopher Smith	14
	Heaton Park	Albert Power	1
	Pendleton Primitive Methodist	A. Gray	2
	Woodhouse Village	H. Bellfield	3
	Cheetham Hill Public	Joe Jessop	4
	Parr Temperance	J. A. Greenwood	7
	St. Johns Failsworth	A. Gray	8
	Beswick Subscription	A. Gray	10
	Albion Mills	Richard Baker	11
	Orphan's Band	Arthur Vanderput	12
	St. James Collyhurst	J. Cartledge	13

Prizes: £10, £7, £5, £3, £2, £1.
16 bands competed.

Due to the large number of entries the contest was split over two weekends, the concluding event being on 12th September 1903