Format:	Test Piece Contest
Test Piece:	Rhapsody on Negro Spirituals 1949
Adjudicators:	Rex Mortimer
Venue:	Queen's Theatre, Barnstaple, Devon, England, UK

Position	Band	Conductor	Points
1	St. Breward	William D. Lawton	174
2	Bugle Silver	Hugh Camps	172
3	Crewkerne Town	Stanley C. Brooks	170
	Bideford Town	W. M. Garratt
	Junior Leaders Regiment RAC	J. Whitwell
	Newton Abbot Town	W. O. Oliver
	Shepton Mallet Town	M. D. Whitcombe
	Verwood Prize	Tom Wright
	Wincanton Silver	R. W. Gilham

Hymn tune Parkhall

1st prize - The Founder Members' Memorial Silver Cup and Music Voucher
2nd prize - The T P Fulford Silver Cup
3rd prize - The Mrs Brookholding Dawes Shield

Hymn Tune contest won by St Breward.