HC Deb 06 March 1906 vol 153 cc288-9
* MR. STAVELEI HILL

I beg to ask the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies if he will lay upon the Table of the House the estimates which caused his Department to consider that the continued importation of Chinese coolies was justifiable, in view of the expense involved by stopping it.

* MR. CHURCHILL

No, Sir. I think it would be undesirable to lay estimates of claims hypothetical upon a contingency which has been avoided even if they existed in a definite form. But they do not exist, and therefore the Secretary of State is not prepared to lay them.