Format:	Test Piece Contest
Test Piece:	The Merry Wives of Windsor [Keighley] 1927
Adjudicators:	George Hawkins
Venue:	Exhibition Park, Newcastle

Position	Band	Conductor
1	Blackhall Colliery	Noel Thorpe
2	Heworth Colliery	J. A. Greenwood
3	Bentley Colliery	W. Wormald
4	Hetton Silver	J. W. Richardson
4	Middlesbrough Borough	James Wilson
	Coxlodge Institute	Unknown
	Newcastle Tramways	Unknown
	Palmer's Works	Unknown
	Urpeth Colliery	Unknown

Prizes - 1st £25 and cup, 2nd £12 and shield, 3rd £7, 4th £4, 5th £1.
March contest - 1st Blackhall, 2nd Heworth, 3rd Bentley.
Deportment - 1st Hetton, 2nd Middlesbrough.
9 bands competed.