Repatriation To New Zealand
Bertram returned to New Zealand in 1946 wrote The Shadow of a War: a New Zealand in the Far East, 1939-1946, a personal narrative of his experience during the Second World War and Japanese prisoner-of-war camps. Predicting that the Communists would win out over the Kuomintang he He decided against returning to China. "..life wasn't going to be easy for foreigners in China, while the two main factions fought it out....But could even Alley survive, caught between KMT and Communists, and the near-bandit troops of local Moslem warlords?
In early 1947 he obtained a senior lectureship in English at Victoria University College, Wellington, where he taught until his retirement in 1975. In 1947, fifteen years after they had first met, Bertram married Jean Ellen Stevenson, an editor with the New Zealand Listener and they settled in the Hutt Valley (near Wellington) in 1949. They shared an interest in horse-riding and building a garden out of a couple of acres of hillside bush.
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