created F SONTGEN's clothing store adjacent to the Criterion Hotel, Westport
on May 8th, 2017 at 11:30 PM
F SONTGEN, an immigrant, arrived in Westport, NZ, in 1874, and set up his clothing store adjacent to the Criterion Hotel, he became popular with the goldminers because he invented and sold the famous heel-less sock, which evidently appealed to them