Format:	Own Choice Test Piece Contest
Adjudicators:	Joseph Owen Shepherd
Venue:	Waverley Market, Edinburgh

Position	Band	Conductor	Music
1	Polton Mills	William Rimmer	Meyerbeer [unknown arranger]
2	Bo'ness and Carriden	Friend Farrand	The Mastersingers (Die Meistersinger) [arr. Shipley]
3	Broxburn Public	William Rimmer	Memories of Mendelssohn
4	Heworth Colliery	Wilfred Turnbull	Beethoven's Works [arr. W. Rimmer]
5	Consett Iron Company	William Holdsworth	Poliuto [unknown arranger]
5	Spencer's Steel Works	Robert Rimmer	Mendelssohn [arr. Round]
7	Larkhall Public	J. W. A. Eskdale	Mendelssohn [arr. Round]
8	Cockerton	William Watson	The Mastersingers (Die Meistersinger) [arr. Shipley]

1st section contest

8 bands competed - 4 chosen from the Scottish Amateur Band Association, and 4 from the Durham and Northumberland Assocation.