A move is planned for the young woman carved in marble who has pointed to Heaven and held a wreath for Whangarei's World War I dead for 90 years.
She and the cenotaph plinth on which she stands are shifting from Rose St to a new war memorial planned for Laurie Hall Park, where her soulful gaze will watch over far more war dead.
The Rose St memorial cost 2000 to erect in 1922 with the sculpture likely to have been imported from Italy.
The new memorial could cost $500,000. Draft designs for it will be viewed by the Whangarei District Council on March 12 and construction is to be completed before the 100th anniversary of Anzac troops landing at Gallipoli is commemorated on Anzac Day next year.
The design proposal consists of a large central area set into the slope to the east of the park waterfall, semi-enclosed by three granite memorial walls.