Jack's back with a new outlook on life.
For more than 100 years, the marble statue of Trooper David Mickle Jack sat atop the Boer War monument in central Oamaru looking south down Thames St.
Now the monument has been moved 40m south and turned 180deg, so Trooper Jack now has a vista north along Thames St.
Yesterday, the cleaned and restored 1.5-tonne, 2.74m-high statue was hoisted back on to the top of the 12.34m-high monument in the second to last act of reassembling the 960-tonne structure.
The last will be to put the two-tonne recumbent marble lion at the base, connecting its plumbing so the fountain which used to come out of its mouth into a bowl will flow again.
The monument will then be complete, ready to be rededicated during next year's Anzac Day.
About 1pm yesterday, Trooper Jack was hoisted by crane in his protective steel cage then lowered through scaffolding on to the marble plinth in less than an hour.
