Format:	Own Choice Test Piece Contest
Adjudicators:	Donald E. Hill
Venue:	Civic Hall, Uppermill

Position	Band	Conductor	Music	Draw	Points
1	Spillers Gainsborough	Glyn Lewis	Diadem of Gold 1953	3	195
2	Slaithwaite	Malcolm Simpson	Pageantry 1934	7	193
3	Quaker Sutherland	Unknown		4	192
4	Walkden	John Golland	John O'Gaunt [Vinter] 1968	5	191
	Christ Church Silver	Unknown	Blackfriars 1955	1
	Hollingworth	C. Griffiths	Land of the Ever Young 1946	2
	Hammonds Sauce 'B'	A. W. McLauchlan		6
	All Souls Manchester	Stephen Hopkinson	Othello	8
	Wigan	Edward Gray	The Corsair 1969	9
	East Lancs Paper Group	Charles A. Randall	An Epic Symphony 1926	10
	Stocksbridge Works	Fred Partlett	Entertainments 1968	11
	Dobcross Silver	Peter Weston	Scheherazade	12
	Linthwaite	Gordon Pulleyn	The Corsair 1969	13

9th annual contest
Prizes - 1st £30 and cup, 2nd £15 and cup, 3rd £10.
13 bands competed.