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Biography: Oliver, William Hosking

Bill Oliver

Bill Oliver

This 1986 portrait of Bill Oliver, by Wellington photographer Robert Cross, appeared on the cover of Oliver’s 2002 memoir Looking for the phoenix.

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Robert Cross Photography

by Robert Cross

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Margaret Tennant. 'Oliver, William Hosking', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, first published in 2021. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/47432/bill-oliver (accessed 4 June 2026).