Format:	Own Choice Test Piece Contest
Adjudicators:	Joseph Jackson
Venue:	Victoria Football Field, West Hartlepool

Position	Band	Conductor	Music
1	Eston Miners	Charles Henry Kay
2	Spennymoor Temperance	John A. Mutton
3	Hetton Rechabites	George Perry	Pomposo
4	Greatham	F. Tidyman	Fallen Leaves
4	Shields Harmonic	Joseph Greenwood
	Hartlepool Recreation	J. Byers	Philomila
	Haswell	George Cornforth	La Chattenham
	Shields Garibaldi	W. W. Elliott	Amarosa
	Thornaby	Unknown	Geralda

Promoted by Hartlepool N.E.R. Band
Prizes: £10, £6, £3, £1
March contest: 1. Spennymoor, 2. Eston, 3. Thornaby.
9 bands competed