Format:	Test Piece Contest
Test Piece:	Smiles and Tears
Adjudicators:	Thomas Valentine
Venue:	Parr, St. Helens, Lancashire

Position	Band	Conductor	Draw
1	Burnley Temperance	Christopher Smith	14
2	Parr St. Peter's	Christopher Smith	13
3	Blackburn Ragged School	William Rimmer	17
4	Widnes St. Mary's	John James Brady	16
4	Blackburn Old	Robert Rimmer	20
	Ashton Congregational Temperance	James Clarke Wright	3
	Wigan Rifles	William Halliwell	5
	Skelmersdale Temperance	T. Blake	6
	Warrington Borough	Robert Rimmer	7
	Lymm Subscription	W. H. Ellwood	8
	Lower Ince Temperance	Thomas Allsop	9
	Knutsford and Cross Town	W. Smith	10
	Cave Brown	J. Stevenson	12
	Skelmersdale Old	William Appleton	18
	Coppull Subscription	William Halliwell	19

Bands drawn 1,2,4,11 and 15 not named in Brass Band News September 1897, but informed to apply to adjudicator to have their remarks.
Prizes: £7, £4, £3, £1
Best euphonium: J. Bedmayne, Burnley Temperance
20 bands competed