Format:	Test Piece Contest
Test Piece:	Verdi's Works [arr. W. Rimmer] 1908
Adjudicators:	J. Ord Hume
Venue:	South Shields

Position	Band	Conductor	Draw
1	Hetton Colliery	William Straughan	3
2	South Moor Colliery	William Heap	6
3	Heworth Colliery	William Heap	5
4	St. Hilda Colliery	J. A. Greenwood	1
	Birtley Town	John Hughes	2
	Brandon Colliery	Wilfred Turnbull	4
	Palmer's Works	Friend Farrand	7
	Birtley League	Angus Holden	8

8 bands competed.