Format:	Test Piece Contest
Test Piece:	Lucrezia Borgia [arr. Round] 1895
Adjudicators:	George Wadsworth
Venue:	Hope Bank Gardens, Honley, West Yorkshire

Position	Band	Conductor
1	Honley	Fenton Renshaw
2	Wharncliffe	Joseph Boothroyd
3	Dewsbury Temperance	John Brook
4	Almondbury	Benjamin Lodge
4	Clayton West	Fenton Renshaw
	Huddersfield Fire Brigade	Joseph Taylor
	Marsden	James Sykes
	Scapegoat Hill	Fred Swift
	Shepley United	Fenton Renshaw
	Wakefield Belle Vue	W. H. Dykes

Prizes: £6, £4, £3, £1
The contest was for bands that had not won a prize of £6 in 1896, and held in Hope Bank Gardens in the year of it's opening
10 bands competed.