I feel certain that now most single men living away from home go flatting, but in the fifties most of them would have become boarders. This was probably because their board included meals and laundry, an essential advantage to young men who had left home untrained to care for themselves.
When I first came to Wellington I occupied single mens temporary accommodation supplied by the government departmentment I was employed by, but within a few weeks I decided to look elsewhere for somewhere to live. At that time private board was always being advertised in the newspapers and I soon moved to live with a family in Naenae. I travelled into Wellington by train, to get to the station I only had to walk a short distance to the end of the road and cross the railway line. I didn't stay there very long as I had an augument with the landlord after he came home one night drunk and kicked his children, so I found a place to live in Upland Road, in Kelburn.