  The couple took an apartment in central Wellington, and in October Arthur started teaching French, English and History at a secondary school in the suburb of Rongotai. He gave this up in March 1941 and the Priors returned to Dunedin, joining the household of fellow pacifists Jack Brailsford and his wife Ruth—Arthur’s ‘Aunty Ruth’, who had cared for him when his mother died not long after his birth. Jack, a conscientious objector in the first world war, had been imprisoned for his pacifism in 1916 and was not released until just before the end of the fighting in 1918 (Brodie 1999).