Format:	Own Choice Test Piece Contest
Adjudicators:	Darrol Barry
Venue:	Tyldesley, Lancashire

Position	Band	Conductor	Music	Draw	Points
1	Whitworth Vale & Healey	K. Sanderson	Sunset Rhapsody 1958	9	191
2	Farnworth Old	Robert Taylor	Rococo Variations on a Theme of Tchaikovsky [Street] 1967	3	190
3	Uppermill	Peter Weston		4	189
	Prestwich	Richard Milton		1
	Airtours	Edwin Bull		2
	Hollingworth	G. H. Hudson		5
	Flixton	Peter Lockett		6
	Stacksteads	Fred Bowker		7
	Hindley	G. Walsh		8
W	Chorley and District Youth
W	Southport St. Johns

Prizes - 1st £150 and cup, 2nd £100 and trophy, 3rd £70 and trophy.
9 bands competed.
20th annual contest.