Format:	Test Piece Contest
Test Piece:	Diamond Jubilee 1897
Adjudicators:	Joseph Walker
Venue:	Sunderland

Position	Band	Conductor
1	Brampton Temperance	James Ord Hume
2	Wingate Grange	George Cornforth
3	Gateshead St. Paul's	James Ord Hume
4	Sunderland East End	John Mackintosh
5	Jarrow Borough	Thomas Henderson

Prizes: £5, £4, £3, £2, £1
March contest: 1. Brampton Temperance, 2. Wingate Grange
5 bands competed.