Format:	March Contest
Adjudicators:	Tom Eastwood
Venue:	Mossley

Position	Band	Conductor	Music
1	Lockwood	Fred Braithwaite
2	Black Dyke	Arthur Oakes Pearce
3	Brighouse and Rastrick	Eric Ball
4	C.W.S.Manchester	Unknown

Result as shown in Alec Greenhalgh book 'Hail Smiling Morn', however Brass Band News July 1946 has result as - 1 Lockwood, 2 Brighouse, 3 Black Dyke. Also has Eric Ball conducting Brighouse but then has F.Berry as the conductor of Brighouse at Stalybridge on same night.
12 bands competed