Author, journalist and teacher. Hilliard wrote five novels, including his best-seller "Maori Girl" (1960), along with non-fiction works and many short stories and essays. He died at his Titahi Bay home, Porirua.
Hilliard, Noel Harvey, 1929-1996
When can you start? (chapter 1-10)
Date: 1995-2002
From: Fry, Alexander Sydney, 1926-2006: Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-8493-1
Description: `When can you start?', an autobiography of Fry's life up until the 1960s describing his childhood, education, war service and employment as a journalist for the Southern Cross newspaper and the New Zealand Listener and editorial work for A H & A W Reed. Chapter 1 begins with Fry arriving in Wellington from Christchurch in 1948 and he describes his experiences working as a journalist for the Southern Cross newspaper and gives his impressions of Wellington, including being a student at Victoria University College in the late 1940s and early 1950s. He then reverts back to his childhood, describing growing up in Wallsend and Christchurch, attending Papanui Technical College and being apprenticed as an electrician. Chapter 10 ends in 1944 when Fry enrolled in the Royal Navy 21st Fleet Airm draft to be trained in England. Names referred to in the text are entered in the name index. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescript
Correspondence (CA-L)
Date: [1946-1990]
From: Pruden, Larry Carrol, 1925-1982 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-6664-06
Description: Includes correspondence relating to the Kerikeri summer Music Camp; with Douglas Lilburn, particularly about series of questions relating to music and New Zealand society; some letters following Pruden's death Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Noel Hilliard looking at the view from his property, Titahi Bay - Photographs taken by ...
Date: [ca 15 September 1993]
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
By: Giblin, Ross, active 1980s-2000s
Reference: EP/1993/3257
Description: Author Noel Hilliard looking at the view from his property in Titahi Bay, Wellington, taken ca 15 September 1993 by Evening Post staff photographer Ross Giblin. Quantity: 2 colour original negative(s) strips with 6 images. Physical Description: Dye coupler negatives, 35mm
Writing, 1978. Programme 14
Date: 31 Oct 1978
From: Writing. News, views and work of New Zealand writers.
By: Donnelly, Felix Cornelius (Father), 1929-; Hilliard, Noel Harvey, 1929-1996; Simpson, Peter Alan (Professor), 1942-; Temple, Robert Philip, 1939-; Thom, Joyce, active 1980s
Reference: OHInt-0130/13
Description: Programme 14 - Peter Simpson talks about his book on the life and work of Roland Hugh Morrieson; Felix Donnelly discusses his book Big Boys Don't Cry; Philip Temple talks about his life and being awarded the Katherine Mansfield Memorial Fellowship; Noel Hilliard talks about his book The Glory and the Dream; Joyce Thom talks about her book Pussyfooting. Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-000478b Quantity: 1 C90 cassette(s). 1 event(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - other partial transcript exists. Search dates: 1978
A Night at Green River by Noel Hilliard. Dramatised for radio by Fiona Kidman
From: Kidman, Fiona Judith (Dame), 1940- : Sound recordings
Reference: OHInt-0108-09
Description: A Night at Green River by Noel Hilliard dramatised by Fiona Kidman in four half-hour episodes for the National Programme. Venue - Wellington Venue - NZBC Studios, Wellington Accompanying material - With tape OHC-001833 there is a clipping that contains a photo of Noel Hilliard and a brief note about the programme. Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-001832, OHC-001833 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - no abstract(s) available.
Correspondence - Noel Hilliard
Date: 1974-1996
From: Wilson, Phillip John, 1922-2001: Collection
Reference: MS-Papers-7685-054
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Correspondence
Date: 1972-1979
From: Cross, Ian Robert, 1925- : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-11711-02
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss and typescripts
Correspondence relating to manuscripts
Date: 1977-1985
From: Catley, Christine McKelvie Cole (Dame), 1922-2011 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-11651-176
Description: Contains letters between Catley and various correspondents, mainly relating to manuscripts submitted to Cape Catley Ltd Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss and typescripts
Correspondence (D-H) (6B)
Date: 1994-2000
From: Ogilvie, Gordon Bryant, 1934- : Papers relating to Denis Glover
Reference: MS-Papers-7252-043
Description: Comprises correspondence between Ogilvie and various correspondents about their relationship with Denis Glover Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Inward correspondence and poems from writers
Date: 1961-1967
From: Rhodes, Harold Winston 1905-1987: Collection
Reference: MS-Papers-0424-28
Description: Letters from Charles Brasch, 1964 (two letters); Janet Frame, 1966; Roy Gilberd, 1967; Denis Glover, 1967 (one letter, two poems); Noel Hilliard, 1963 (six letters, Pouakani Settlers material); Louis Johnson, 1963 and 1967 (three letters, one poem); Bill Pearson, 1961 and 1964 (two letters); Maurice Shadbolt, 1966; Kendrick Smithyman, 1966 (two letters, one poem) and Dora Somerville, 1964 Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Correspondence with Noel Hilliard re Bulgaria
Date: 1985, 1990
From: Smith, Shirley Hilda Stanley, 1916-2007 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-11369-008
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Staff and offices of the Listener
Date: 1970-1977
From: Catley, Christine McKelvie Cole (Dame), 1922-2011 : Photographs
By: Holcroft, Montague Harry, 1902-1993
Reference: 35mm-100829-100865
Description: Photographs of the staff and offices of the Listener magazine from the 1970 to 1977 period, possibly taken by Monte Holcroft Includes original portraits of Listener writers, including Noel Hilliard, Ian Cross, Philip Temple and Ray Knox, together with editor Alex MacLeod and programme editor Larry Pruden Also some images of these and other people working in the Listener offices These negatives were sent to Christine Cole Catley by Holcroft during the preparation of his memoir `A sea of words' (Whatamango Bay: Cape Catley, 1986). They were originally located at MS-Papers-11651-131. Quantity: 37 b&w original negative(s) strips with 145 images. Physical Description: Film negatives
Loose correspondence
Date: 1951-1991
From: Chisholm, Jocelyn Bell, 1928-2010 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-10799-079
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Correspondence - H
Date: 1993-2006
From: Gee, Maurice Gough, 1931- : Collection
Reference: MS-Papers-8732-018
Description: Identified correspondents listed in name index Quantity: 1 folder(s).
O E Middleton v Truth newspaper
Date: 1961-1967
From: Rhodes, Harold Winston 1905-1987: Collection
Reference: MS-Papers-0424-25
Description: Papers relating to a libel case. Correspondence mainly with O E Middleton and Noel Hilliard but also with Murray Gittos, A Golenkov (General Secretary of the USSR-NZ Society in Moscow), A P Gaskell and Dan Davin. Also newspaper reports of the hearing Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Inward and outward correspondence (A-Mc)
Date: [1970-1990]
From: Hamilton, Walter Ian, 1905-1991: Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-7938-13
Description: Inward and outward correspondence; correspondents entered in the Name field Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Correspondence
Date: Jul 1971-Mar 1972
From: Holcroft, Montague Harry, 1902-1993 : Papers
Reference: 75-227-1/08
Description: Selected correspondents entered in Name field. Includes correspondence re `The reluctant editor'; `Fragrant moon', `Death in every port'; `NZ Heritage'; Auckland Centennial Fiction Competition, etc Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Inward letters
Date: 1979-1985
From: McNeish, James Henry Peter, 1931-2016: Collection
Reference: MS-Papers-7811-156
Description: Letters from a wide variety of correspondents. Not all indexed. Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Correspondence - H-L
Date: 1987-1995
From: Pearson, William Harrison, 1922-2002 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-5428-23
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss and typescripts
New Zealand writers, A - L.
Date: 1920-1965
From: Lawlor, Patrick Anthony, 1893-1979 :Photographs of New Zealand writers, and Lawlor's offices
Reference: PAColl-6260-1