Format:	Test Piece Contest
Test Piece:	English Suite [Lovelock] 1965
Adjudicators:	Dennis Masters
Venue:	St. Bede's School, Sunderland

Position	Band	Conductor	Points
1	Brancepeth Colliery	J. W. Ainsley	187
2	Shotton Colliery	W. H. Gelson	186
3	Ovington Prize	Harold Laycock	185
	Cambois Colliery	W. R. Taylor
	Dudley Colliery	W. S. Bond
	Fishburn Colliery Welfare	William Makepeace
	Langley Park Colliery	George Holden
	Newton Aycliffe	A. Bagley
	South Bank Town	A. W. Turner
	Washington Glebe Colliery	E. Miller
	Wheatley Hill Colliery	J. Rutter
	Whitworth and Spennymoor	T. W. Hull

12 bands competed.