Format:	Test Piece Contest
Test Piece:	The Land of the Long White Cloud - Aotearoa 1979
Adjudicators:	Derek Bourgeois , James Langley , James Scott
Venue:	Winter Gardens (Empress Ballroom), Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK

Position	Band	Conductor	Draw	Points
1	Grimethorpe Colliery	Frank Renton	9	580
2	Point of Ayr Colliery (EIMCO) Band	Robert Watson	13	568
3	Thoresby Colliery	Stan Lippeatt	4	562
4	Stocksbridge Engineering Steels	Hugh Megarrell	1	561
5	Fishburn	Roy Curran	8	559
6	Shirland Miners' Welfare	Trevor Walmsley	7	552
	Scottish Brewers Silver (Newtongrange)	Keith Wilkinson	2
	Kippax (Allerton Bywater Workshops NUM)	Keiron Anderson	3
	Cowdenbeath Public	Alan Fernie	5
	Rockingham	John Kendall	6
	Newstead Welfare	Duncan Beckley	10
	Kinneil Colliery	Roger Payne	11
	Wansbeck's Ashington Colliery	J. Anderson	12