The other side of the earth

In 1967 when I was a teenager I went by train to visit my boyfriend in Leeds. On the journey I struck up a conversation with the man sitting next to me. He informed me that he was from New Zealand and was on a working holiday. I said that I had a pen friend from the North Island of New Zealand and he said he was also from the North Island. I asked him whereabouts he lived and he said it was a very small place called Rongakako. I said thats a coincidence as my pen friend also lives in Rongakako. He said what address? I said Brown Street (I am not 100% sure of the name of the street now as it was 45 years ago) he said this is so stange I live in Browne street number 10.................In total amazement I said, my pen friend lives at number 5. He said that he didnt know her personally as she was away at a boarding school in Masterton, but he was a friend of her brothers.