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Historical rankings of prime ministers of New Zealand

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Mayors of Bluff
--- <!-- Noel James Peterson (born 24 July 1953) is a New Zealand politician and environmentalist who has served as the Mayor of Invercargill since 2022. He is often known as "The Green Wizard".

Early life
Peterson was born in Tauranga in 1953. He moved to Wellington at the age of 18 and spent seven years there before returning to Tauranga, where he stayed until moving to Bluff in June 2017. He had only spent one day in the South Island prior to moving. He spent 25 years working with IHC New Zealand, an organisation that provides support for people with intellectual disabilities. It was there in 2010 that he received the wizard moniker.

Political career
Peterson contested the Tauranga electorate for the Green Party at the 2005 general election. He placed fifth, and at 51st on the party list was unable to become a Member of Parliament. Peterson unsuccessfully ran for Environment Bay of Plenty council twice. In July 2016 he announced he would contest the 2016 Tauranga mayoral election. He came a distant tenth place. He concurrently ran for the Tauranga City Council and came thirteenth.

Peterson ran for the Bluff Community Board in October 2019. As only five candidates applied for the five positions, they were elected unopposed. In October 2021, Peterson announced that he would run in the 2022 Invercargill mayoral election.

Personal life
Peterson has had a wife and two partners, all of whom have died. All of his children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren live in Australia. Since 2018 he has driven a 2014 Smart Fortwo electric car.

Early life
Tong came to Southland in 1981. He served 25 years in the police force.

Political career
Tong was elected mayor of Southland in 2013, defeating two Southland councillors. Upon his re-election to a third term in 2019, he declared it would be his last.

Shady business dealings with Zhang Yikun...

Tong announced his candidacy for the Invercargill mayoralty on 28 October 2021, having decided to run about a year prior.

Personal life
Tong suffered a heart attack in December 2019. He had five stents implanted. In January 2021 he was given an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator after his heart's recovery was deemed insufficient.

Background
Horn was raised in Invercargill. He had one child, Brendon, who died of a heart attack in 1992 at the age of 14 and was buried in Invercargill's Eastern Cemetery. Horn later lived in Ashburton, and then moved to Christchurch where he worked as a truck driver. He moved back to Invercargill after suffering a stroke in 2017, which left him non-verbal and with a limp.

After being diagnosed with vascular dementia, Horn began living in the Walmsley House rest home on Mary Street in August 2020. He had not walked further than one street away from the home since then. The morning before his disappearance he was visited by his sister Wendy and her two grandchildren.

Disappearance
Horn was last seen in Walmsley House at 8 am on 15 February 2021. At 9:37 am he was captured on the CCTV camera of a dairy turning the corner from Macmaster Street to Yarrow Street and walking towards Queens Drive. A witness later saw him between Queens Drive and Doon Street. By 10:10 am he had made it to Queens Park and was seen on camera walking north past the rotunda ten minutes later. At 11:14 am he was seen near the Herbert Street entrance, where he turned around and walked back toward the rotunda. He was seen by a member of the public about an hour later sitting on a bench near the rotunda. About two hours after that, at 2:20 pm, another person saw him in the playground in an agitated state. This was the last sighting of Horn.

Investigation
Walmsley House staff first noticed Horn was missing at noon. His sisters Wendy and Lyn were notified and they began searching nearby streets. The police were called at about 1 pm. One of the first locations searched was the Eastern Cemetery, due to Horn's son being buried there. After the CCTV footage of him walking west on Yarrow was discovered, the commercial buildings in the inner city area were searched. It was theorized that he may have wandered into someone's backyard or shed. When more footage was discovered, the search primarily focused on Queens Park and the surrounding streets. The ponds in the park were drained, and drones were used to take aerial photographs. Other locations searched include the Waihopai River, Otepuni Creek, and Thomsons Bush. By 26 February, his family had given up hope of finding him alive. Searches were scaled back after two weeks, with police feeling that Queens Park could be ruled out as the location of Horn's body.

Discovery of body
The body of an elderly man believed to be Horn was discovered on 26 March in a wooded area near the intersection of Bill Richardson Drive and Beatrice Street. The identity of the body was confirmed on 29 March.