Format:	Test Piece Contest
Test Piece:	Hinemoa 1979
Adjudicators:	Geoffrey Brand
Venue:	Winter Gardens (Opera House Theatre), Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK

Position	Band	Conductor	Draw	Points
1	Creswell Colliery Welfare (Rexco) Band	Julie Holling	5	187
2	Ellington Colliery Band	Maurice Priestley	18	185
3	Markham and District Colliery Band	Don Hendy	14	184
4	Shirebrook Miners	Seth Appleton	13	183
5	Hatfield Main	Ken Johnson	1	182
6	Harworth Colliery	Ken Vernon	9	181
	Daw Mill	Stan James
	Kirkby Colliery Welfare Band	Simon Jones	2
	Armthorpe Elmfield	Haydn Griffiths	3
	South Derbyshire Miners	Ray Stuttard	4
	Dalkeith & Bilston Glen	John Dickson	6
	Rossington Colliery	Duncan Beckley	7
	Nostell Colliery	Brian Nicholson	8
	Thornley Colliery	Gordon Kitto	12
	Ireland Colliery	Francis Evans	15
	Ogmore Valley	R. D. Williams	16
	Ryhope Colliery	J. Weirs	17
W	Grange Moor		11

Prizes 1st £325, 2nd £275, 3rd £225, 4th £175, 5th £125, 6th £75.
17 bands competed.
24th annual contest