nz Birth Cert fathers occupation

[geenz]

I would like assistance to work out what the occupation of the adoptive father is on this 1929 NZ birth cert. Driver? Miner?

[Copy certificate attached]

I can decipher the rest of it, just having trouble working this word out.

[mckha489]

I think it is  Driver.

[geenz]

Well yes but I do not think that it looks like a well formed "D" or "d" to me in that sort of writing which is why I think it could also be "Miner" or some other occupation.

[shanreagh]

I think it is  Driver.

Yes looks like Driver to me as well. 

I deliver our local community newspaper to houses in Owen street.

You can see the house on Google street view.

[mckha489]

I think an M would bear more relation to his Ws

Looking at SVLs subsequent occupations Driver seems more likely to me.
Also, Wellington….where was the mine?

[mckha489]

I think it’s a poorly formed one of these Ds

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS_PvMByJdcSW2Ay1oxtHSbua93EeL0WfllZQ&s

[shanreagh]

Well yes but I do not think that it looks like a well formed "D" or "d" to me in that sort of writing which is why I think it could also be "Miner" or some other occupation.

Actually it does look like a well formed capital "D" in cursive writing by someone who writes for a living ie a registrar or registrar's cleark.  I can remember being taught the hook.

http://www.rootschat.com/links/01slq/ 

While there was some mining in the Wellington surrounds in the very early days of settlement eg 1840s on it would not be an occupation for a city dweller in the 1930s.   

[mckha489]

Yes Shanreagh.
Your link is better than mine 😀

[Eyesee]

The 1931 electoral roll has his occupation as Carrier, although he appears later to have become a Tailor.

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