Format:	Test Piece Contest
Test Piece:	Victoria Regina 1897
Adjudicators:	Joseph Walker
Venue:	Penshaw Hill

Position	Band	Conductor
1	Westwood	M. Hobday
2	Hetton and District	George Perry
3	Heworth Colliery	James Oliver
4	Sunderland East End	John Mackintosh
	Beamish Model	Unknown
	Chester-le-Street C.E.T.S	Unknown
	Stanhope	Unknown

Prizes: £7 and cornet, £2 10s and cornet, £1 10s, £10s
March contest: 1. Chester-le-Street , 2. Westwood