Format:	Test Piece Contest
Test Piece:	Second Rhapsody on Negro Spirituals 1954
Adjudicators:	Geoffrey Brand
Venue:	Winter Gardens, Bournemouth, Dorset, England, UK

Position	Band	Conductor	Points
1	Gillingham Imperial	Fred Tranter	184
2	Oakmead School	Courtney Bosanko	182
3	Mere Manor Youth	Dennis Chalk	181
4	Crewkerne Concert	Mike Shepherd	180
	Cosham Concert Brass	Harry Rowe
	Downton Silver	K. D. R. Palmer
	Frome Town	Unknown
	Junior Leaders Regt	Colin Herbert
	Michelmersh Silver	W. A. T. Parsons
	Poole Borough	David Jewitt
	Ringwood and Burley	Don Marlow
	Shaftesbury Town	R. C. Dicker

Best euphonium - Oakmead.
Best soprano and trombone - Gillingham.
19th annual contest.
12 bands competed.