In other spheres, though perhaps less tempestuous, the record was on the whole similarly bleak. Following 1926, however, there was some road development, increasingly necessary with the opening of new Administrative stations, and also an extension of medical services. Apart from the activities of the veterinary office, the only other measure of direct benefit to the pastoral economy was the initiation of a small-scale well-drilling scheme in the 1930s. These restricted and altogether minimal developments in a territory where, in contrast to Somalia, there were fewer natural resources and neither the spur of imperial pride nor the needs of a European settler community to consider, cost very little. The budget remained pitifully small, amounting as late as 1937 to only £213, 139.

I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Som…, loc. 289