Format:	Test Piece Contest
Test Piece:	Gems of Columbia 1896
Adjudicators:	Thomas Seddon
Venue:	Dolphin Ground, Slough, Berkshire

Position	Band	Conductor	Draw
1	Hanslope Excelsior	Harry Sharpe	2
1	Slough and Chalvey	J. W. Fidler	5
3	Uxbridge and Hillingdon	Unknown	10
4	Aylesbury Printing Works	John Thomas Ogden	11
	Staines Town	Unknown	1
	Wycombe Town	Unknown	3
	Luton Volunteers	Unknown	4
	Berkhamsted St. Peter's	Unknown	6
	Willesden Junction	Unknown	7
	Feltham	Unknown	8
	Barking Town	Unknown	9

Reported in Northampton Herald, 19th September 1896
Prizes: £8, £4, £2, £1
11 bands competed